My experience with this is that it works better when you make the service a feature, hidden if necessary. The issue is that things like repairs will need you to preserve the property state otherwise you'll do a repair or add a feature and the property will have the wrong value. Plus if it is a feature then the user can add it later in the normal way that people add features. Phil
-----Original Message----- From: Neil Sleightholm [mailto:n...@x2systems.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2013 11:30 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] conditional serviceinstall / msi property question I think the problem is the quotes around the 1 and 0, I would just do SKIPSERVICEINSTALL=1 and SKIPSERVICEINSTALL=0. Neil -----Original Message----- From: Joe Damato [mailto:j...@boundary.com] Sent: 24 January 2013 01:09 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: [WiX-users] conditional serviceinstall / msi property question Hi - I started with a working MSI that installs some DLLs, an EXE, and did a ServiceInstall. Everything worked great. Now, I want to conditionally do a ServiceInstall depending on an MSI Property that gets set during a custom action. I have two components: <Component Id="someBlah_noservice" Guid="SOMEGUIDHERE"> <Condition>SKIPSERVICEINSTALL = "1"</Condition> <File Id="someblah_noservice" Name="blah.exe" DiskId="1" Source="..." KeyPath="yes"/> </Component> and <Component Id="someBlah" Guid="SOME_OTHER_GUID_HERE"> <Condition>SKIPSERVICEINSTALL = "0"</Condition> <File Id="someblah" Name="blah.exe" DiskId="1" Source="..." KeyPath="yes"/> <ServiceInstall Id="ServiceInstaller" ....... /> <ServiceControl Id=".." .... /> </Component> and then: <Feature Id="someBlah" Title="..." Level="1"> ... <ComponentRef Id="someBlah"/> <ComponentRef Id="someBlah_noservice"/> </Feature> The MSI log shows that the property value of SKIPSERVICEINSTALL is set to "1" (or "0" depending on what I'm trying to do) correctly, HOWEVER, _neither_ component is installed. In other words, the install "completes successfully" but there is no blah.exe written to the filesystem regardless of whether I attempt to skip the service install or not. So, I believe something about the way I'm trying to do this is wrong and the MSI isn't "seeing" or checking the SKIPSERVICEINSTALL property value and thus neither component ends up getting installed. Any hints are greatly appreciated, Joe ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Master Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL, ASP.NET, C# 2012, HTML5, CSS, MVC, Windows 8 Apps, JavaScript and much more. Keep your skills current with LearnDevNow - 3,200 step-by-step video tutorials by Microsoft MVPs and experts. ON SALE this month only -- learn more at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/learnnow-d2d _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Master Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL, ASP.NET, C# 2012, HTML5, CSS, MVC, Windows 8 Apps, JavaScript and much more. Keep your skills current with LearnDevNow - 3,200 step-by-step video tutorials by Microsoft MVPs and experts. ON SALE this month only -- learn more at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/learnnow-d2d _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Master Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL, ASP.NET, C# 2012, HTML5, CSS, MVC, Windows 8 Apps, JavaScript and much more. Keep your skills current with LearnDevNow - 3,200 step-by-step video tutorials by Microsoft MVPs and experts. ON SALE this month only -- learn more at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/learnnow-d2d _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
