[wix-users] Ordering Service Stop

[Bob Arnson]

Unless the table defines order somehow (e.g., Control_Next, Sequence, Ordering), the order MSI processes rows is undefined. MSI can rely on natural row order or use an internal order. (WiX doesn't define natural row order in the output either, especially when you consider extensions and wixlibs.)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: wix-users <wix-users-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org> On Behalf Of
> Edwin Castro via wix-users
> Sent: Friday, 2 September, 2022 20:06
> To: WiX Toolset Users Mailing List <wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org>
> Cc: Edwin Castro <egcastr at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [wix-users] Ordering Service Stop
> 
> Thanks for the suggestion but in my experience, at least on the Win 10 test
> VM, StopServices appears to stop services in the order of the service Name
> or perhaps the order in which the rows appear in the ServiceControl table
> (perhaps more likely). I need to confirm but it looks like perhaps their order
> in the wxs source may be a contributing factor in their order in the table.
> 
> --
> Edwin G. Castro
> 
> 
> On Fri, Sep 2, 2022 at 7:58 AM Horr, Joe via wix-users < wix-
> users at lists.wixtoolset.org> wrote:
> 
> > We have a similar scenario with one of our packages where we need
> > services to stop in a particular order yet don't want to set Windows
> > Service dependencies between them. I discovered that the MSI will
> > create the Service Control table in alphabetical order of the
> > ServiceControl ID name, thus stopping and starting the services in
> > that order. Using this, you can control the order in the generated
> > installer by naming the ServiceControl IDs in alphabetic order of the way
> you want them stopped and started.
> > I use "a_", "b_", etc. in front of the existing ServiceControl ID
> > names to ensure their order in the Service Control MSI table and it
> > works great for us.
> >
> > Joe Horr
> > Bonum est Lardo
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: wix-users <wix-users-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org> On Behalf Of
> > Racheli Ganon via wix-users
> > Sent: Friday, September 2, 2022 9:22 AM
> > To: WiX Toolset Users Mailing List <wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org>
> > Cc: Racheli Ganon <r05458410430 at gmail.com>
> > Subject: Re: [wix-users] Ordering Service Stop
> >
> > You  can use custom actions to stop each service and schedule the
> > actions
> >
> > ‫בתאריך יום ה׳, 1 בספט׳ 2022 ב-19:55 מאת ‪Edwin Castro via wix-users‬‏
> > <‪ wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org‬‏>:‬
> >
> > > I was hoping to avoid service dependencies. We're in a weird
> > > situation where we want ServiceA started before ServiceB and we also
> > > want ServiceA stopped before ServiceB.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Edwin G. Castro
> > >
> > >
> > > On Wed, Aug 31, 2022 at 10:58 PM Nir Bar via wix-users <
> > > wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > > You can set service dependencies so that ServiceB is started
> > > > before ServiceA, and stopped after ithttps://
> > > >
> > >
> wixtoolset.org/documentation/manual/v3/xsd/wix/servicedependency.htm
> > > l-
> > > -Nir
> > > > BarWiX Expert ---- On Thu, 01 Sep 2022 04:54:03 +0300
> > > > wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org  wrote ----Can services to be
> > > > stopped
> > > with
> > > > ServiceControl be ordered so that ServiceA is stopped before
> > > > ServiceB?
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Edwin G. Castro
> > > >
> > > >
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