[wix-users] Start windows service with some parameters only once

Christopher Painter chrpai at iswix.com
Tue Feb 20 09:13:25 PST 2018


ServiceInstall and SeviceControl elements. 

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> On Feb 20, 2018, at 10:40 AM, Russell Haley <russ.haley at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 7:52 AM, Christopher Painter via wix-users
> <wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org> wrote:
>> InstallUtil is an antipattern from a WiX / MSI perspective.  It's out of process self registration that is prone to failure.
> 
> I see the example service in the iswix tutorial.
> 
> https://github.com/iswix-llc/iswix-tutorials/tree/master/windows-service
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> I don't have time to look it up today so I'll be cheeky and ask what
> WIX controls/properties are used? I can't tell from the picture in the
> tutorial.
> 
> Russ
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>> Subject: Re: [wix-users] Start windows service with some parameters only once
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>> Is that a C# service class that you install with InstallUtil?
>> If so, then you can pass arguments to InstallUtil when installing the service.
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