Re: [WiX-users] WiX 3.0: How to change an existing Windows service's startup type

2009-06-03 Thread Bob Arnson
Christopher Painter wrote: I'm sorry for the short message with vague context. Yes, service dependencies. Basically it's a product line chainer with use cases that involve different sets of third party packages for different products where development wants the service dependencies set

Re: [WiX-users] WiX 3.0: How to change an existing Windows service's startup type

2009-06-02 Thread Bob Arnson
Christopher Painter wrote: For package C, if A and/or B is installed, add A and/or B as dependencies of C. As service dependencies? -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ -- OpenSolaris 2009.06 is a cutting edge

Re: [WiX-users] WiX 3.0: How to change an existing Windows service's startup type

2009-06-02 Thread Christopher Painter
gets picked up. They sound like soft dependencies to mitigate race conditions from what I can tell. --- On Tue, 6/2/09, Bob Arnson b...@joyofsetup.com wrote: From: Bob Arnson b...@joyofsetup.com Subject: Re: [WiX-users] WiX 3.0: How to change an existing Windows service's startup type

Re: [WiX-users] WiX 3.0: How to change an existing Windows service's startup type

2009-06-01 Thread Christopher Painter
, know a secret or read a really good thread that deserves attention? E-Mail Me --- On Sat, 5/30/09, Bob Arnson b...@joyofsetup.com wrote: From: Bob Arnson b...@joyofsetup.com Subject: Re: [WiX-users] WiX 3.0: How to change an existing Windows service's startup type To: General discussion

Re: [WiX-users] WiX 3.0: How to change an existing Windows service's startup type

2009-06-01 Thread little.forest
Hi Bob, Christopher, Thanks for your reply. Yes, I got your points, Bob. That makes sense. I'll talked to the developers in our dev team about it. Thanks again, /Brian __ The new Internet Explorer® 8 - Faster, safer,

Re: [WiX-users] WiX 3.0: How to change an existing Windows service's startup type

2009-05-30 Thread Bob Arnson
little.forest wrote: But in our case, I'm afraid we couldn't take ownership for that key. The reason is, we're not trying to create a component with a key, but trying to change an existing key's value. Actually, our application is a WPF application. We need to make Windows Presentation

Re: [WiX-users] WiX 3.0: How to change an existing Windows service's startup type

2009-05-29 Thread little.forest
Hi, I'd like to second this question. Here I'd just make it short: Is it possible to change an existing registry entry's value? Thanks, /Brian __ Looking for the perfect gift? Give the gift of Flickr!

Re: [WiX-users] WiX 3.0: How to change an existing Windows service's startup type

2009-05-29 Thread Rob Mensching
yes, but you have to think about the implications of that. Your Component will take ownership of the key (i.e. you will uninstall it when your Component is removed). So, either you have to make the Component Permanent or make it unmanaged (no Guid attribute). However, last I heard, changing

Re: [WiX-users] WiX 3.0: How to change an existing Windows service's startup type

2009-05-29 Thread little.forest
questions. :-) Thanks again, /Brian From: Rob Mensching r...@wixtoolset.org To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Friday, May 29, 2009 10:47:02 AM Subject: Re: [WiX-users] WiX 3.0: How to change an existing

[WiX-users] WiX 3.0: How to change an existing Windows service's startup type

2009-05-22 Thread little.forest
We're using WiX version 3.0.4805.0. During installation, we need to change an existing Windows service's startup type to be Automatic. How to do that? I know there is a way to start the service. But I've no idea how to change its startup type. In ServiceInstall element, there is a Start

Re: [WiX-users] WiX 3.0: How to change an existing Windows service's startup type

2009-05-22 Thread little.forest
Okay, I found a way to change the startup type by going to registry and change the service 'Start' value, e.g. HKLM\Software\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\WhateverService But when I try to do it in WiX, it doesn't work. Here is my code: Component Id=Component_StartTheService Guid=...