I would suggest that if the user doesn't install the feature that contains the service component that he could go into Add/Remove Programs ( Programs and Features ) and use the Maintenance UI experience to add ( or remove ) that feature whenever he needs to.
I see no reason to keep the file around unless you have a Run As Service or Run As Application type story. In that case I'd have FooApp.exe and FooService.exe and refactor the main logic into Foo.dll. All three of these files should be keyfiles of their own components and FooApp.exe and Foo.dll should belong to one feature and FooService.exe and Foo.dll should belong to another feature. You can repeat this pattern so each of these 5 services all belong 1 one atomic feature or to seperate features to give the user fine grain control. Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog Have a hot tip, know a secret or read a really good thread that deserves attention? E-Mail Me ----- Original Message ---- From: Rune Moberg <jjfl...@gmail.com> To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. <wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net> Sent: Tue, January 25, 2011 10:32:35 AM Subject: [WiX-users] ServiceInstall and KeyPath I had a cunning plan. I wanted to install everything - just in case. As a convenience for the victim (uhm, "customer") I wanted to add a feature that would install a service. If the user misses that feature, he can simply find the executable and register the service using -i as a command line parameter. But <ServiceInstall> of course looks at KeyPath. The easiest way would be to include the executable using <file>, but then how do I manage to let the user keep the file around "just in case"? I have about five services like this. They are not necessarily supposed to be switched on right away. -- Rune ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Special Offer-- Download ArcSight Logger for FREE (a $49 USD value)! Finally, a world-class log management solution at an even better price-free! Download using promo code Free_Logger_4_Dev2Dev. Offer expires February 28th, so secure your free ArcSight Logger TODAY! http://p.sf.net/sfu/arcsight-sfd2d _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Special Offer-- Download ArcSight Logger for FREE (a $49 USD value)! Finally, a world-class log management solution at an even better price-free! Download using promo code Free_Logger_4_Dev2Dev. Offer expires February 28th, so secure your free ArcSight Logger TODAY! http://p.sf.net/sfu/arcsight-sfd2d _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
