Checkout http://blog.deploymentengineering.com/2006/07/msi-vs-net.html
Basically a .NET service is no different from any other service from the
service control managers and MSI's view. ServiceBase is used to implement
the contract but the ServiceInstaller class is completely unneeded.
The only catch you might see is a race condition with the way MSI publishes
assemblies to the GAC/SxS storages. If your service assembly has a dependency
on these assemblies it can create a problem that seems to be a service problem
but it isn't really.
Thomas Tomiczek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The old issue with installutil coming back, and this time for
me it is not academic I actually need to get two services rolled out and
installed for a software package.
I have to make two installers for .NET applications one installs a system
service straight, the other installs a system service and a website. The first
installer may / should possibly not even have a UI (as it is supposed to be
remote-installed by the server in admin mode, though we possibly leave the UI
in for manual installation).
Both installers are supposed to only work on Longhorn / Vista and with .NET
3.5 installed (which I will check). Breaking the uninstall is not really a
concern for this type of software (though it theoretically could be one, we are
willing to take that risk and tell people to please reinstall the .net
framework should something break.
The services need to be set to autostart and run under local system account
for now, though we think of some more elaborate setup later point is that the
silently installed service NEEDS local admin rights, and the other one needs
domain admin rights, as they both are server remote control software (the local
install an agent of the server doing certain thigns locally, while the server
does certain things through the agent, but some directly, like maintenance of
domain accounts).
Naturally we use VS.NET 2008 for development ;) And Wix 3.0 is planned for
the setup.
What is the best way in this scenario to get the services installed?
InstallUtil is still on the dont use list? Any good code samples?
I remember hefty discussions about this a long time ago (6-12 months) now
we have .NET 3.5, so, has something changed?
Thanks in advance
Thomas Tomiczek
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