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

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

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

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 o

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, easie

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

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

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
asking too many questions. :-) Thanks again, /Brian ________________ From: Rob Mensching To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Sent: Friday, May 29, 2009 10:47:02 AM Subject: Re: [WiX-users] WiX 3.0: How to change an existing Windows service's startup

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 the

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! http://www.flickr.com/gi

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

2009-05-28 Thread little.forest
Hi All, I'm still stuck on this issue. I did search the forum but didn't find any answer regarding this. Please offer help if you know of the answers. I'd really appreciate any help from you. Thanks in advance. Basically, we'd like just start a system service and change its Startup type from 'M

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: I try to change the "Start" type from 3(manual) t

[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" pr