I know from experience that this can be done from an installer perspective. However, one gotcha that I've seen over the years is that at one company someone had written a C++ windows service that would fail if the service wasn't installed at the service name the application code expected. At other companies I worked at their .NET services had no problems being run in side by side directories as different transformed service names.
I don't think this was a C++ vs .NET thing just a function of how that particular developer had written his C++ code. I.e. YMMV and keep it in mind. ----- Original Message ---- From: Ruslan Albu <ruslan.a...@kurtosys.com> To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Fri, January 14, 2011 5:42:39 AM Subject: [WiX-users] The same Windows Service installed under different names I have created an installation for Windows Service and everything works well. Next I need to allow the same service to be installed more times under different names. For example, if I have the service 'MyService' I need to install two services MyServiceChart and MyServiceImage. These names will appear in MMC. There are two issues with this: 1. I need a way to specify the last bit (Chart or Image) for the DisplayName attribute in the ServiceInstall element in .wxs file. I'm thinking to add a new dialog in UI with a textbox on it and append this value to the DisplayName. Is this possible? 2. When I start the MSI the 'Change repair or remove installation' dialog pops up. I recon I can get rid of this and have the standard dialog to allow to install a new instance by changing the Product GUID to *. But in this case I will not be able to update/patch the current installation. Is it possible to implement this in WIX? How can I tackle these issues? Thanks ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Protect Your Site and Customers from Malware Attacks Learn about various malware tactics and how to avoid them. Understand malware threats, the impact they can have on your business, and how you can protect your company and customers by using code signing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnl _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Protect Your Site and Customers from Malware Attacks Learn about various malware tactics and how to avoid them. Understand malware threats, the impact they can have on your business, and how you can protect your company and customers by using code signing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnl _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
