We have the same problem, would love a solution. Did you try creating two components with services, one with a dependency and another without? Then condition them based on, say, SQLSERVER_IS_LOCAL. Try setting and not setting the property and see if that works.
Once it does, you can start trying to figure out what a "local" instance means. It would go a long way checking for basic names (eg. (local)). We're using http://msiext.codeplex.com, it would be implementable to properly figure out whether the instance is actually local. Thx dB. dB. @ dblock.org Moscow|Geneva|Seattle|New York -----Original Message----- From: Will Sullivan [mailto:wsulli...@softdocs.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2010 2:21 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: [WiX-users] Dependency on Sql Server My service uses an instance of Sql Server. Now, if that instance is on the current machine, I need to set a dependency on that service so that my service starts afterwards. I can foresee a hard time getting this into my installer. I need to determine if the sql server is on the current machine from the server/instance provided by the user, then determine the method of identifying the service in order to set a dependency on it, then dynamically adding this to my service during the install. So, is there a relatively easy way to do this? Or are there any guides out here for this situation? Looking for any help on this I can get! TIA. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
