I have been working on a new version of TFSIntegrator that will be released very shortly. As part of the new release I wanted to include a new improved version of the setup project. One of the goals that I wanted to include was the ability to install the service during the installation process. With Wix V3.0 this is pretty easy. There is a ServiceInstall and ServiceControl elements that you can use. There are a couple of things to remember:
- The ServiceInstall element needs to be in the same component that install the file for the service.
- The file that is used, is the one with the KeyPath attribute set to yes.
An example component is as follows:
<Component Id="InstallService" Guid="{A217EE94-F719-47c4-BEE0-28FDF944CD5C}"> <File Id="EXECUTABLE1" Name="TfsIntegrator.exe" Source="Files\TfsIntegrator.exe"
KeyPath="yes"/> <ServiceInstall Id="ABC" Name="TfsIntegrator" DisplayName="TfsIntegrator" Type="ownProcess" Start="auto" ErrorControl="normal" Description="TfsIntegrator" Account="[SERVICEACCOUNT]" Password="[SERVICEPASSWORD]" /> <ServiceControl Id="StartTfsIntegrator" Name="TfsIntegrator" Start="install" Wait="no" /> <ServiceControl Id="StopTfsIntegrator" Name="TfsIntegrator" Stop="both" Wait="yes" Remove="uninstall" /> </Component>
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