The ServiceInstaller table doesn't have a foreign key join back to the file table. It's target of the service is always the keyfile of the parent component.
---------------------------------------- From: "Hans ter Horst" <hoshis...@gmail.com> Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2013 8:13 PM To: "General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset." <wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net> Subject: [WiX-users] Something I noticed with ServiceInstall (Wix 3,7) When I used the Fragment below, I noticed that the Windows service created links to the *web.config* file as executable instead of linking to MyServer.exe which is of course not a proper executable file and the service fails to load understandably. I moved the <File Source="Deliverables\web.config" /> line to a separate Fragment and ComponentGroup and linked to that in the appropriate Feature which solved the problem for me, yet I would like to understand better why this occurred. If I had wanted several files in this ComponentGroup yet created the Windows service from the correct source file, how should the Fragment have looked? <Fragment> <ComponentGroup Id="MyServer" Directory="EFS"> <Component Id="MyServer.exe" Guid="my guid" Win64="yes"> <File Source="Deliverables\web.config" /> <File Id="MyServer.exe" Name="MyServer.exe" Source="Deliverables\ MyServer.exe" /> <ServiceInstall Id="ServiceInstaller" Type=" ownProcess" Name="MyServer" DisplayName="MyServer" Description="MyServer" Start="auto" Account="[DOMAINUSER]" Password="[PASSWORD]" ErrorControl="normal" Arguments=" /start MyServer" /> <ServiceControl Id="StartService" Stop="both" Remove="uninstall" Name="MyServer" Wait="yes" /> </Component> </ComponentGroup> </Fragment> -- http://monochrome.me.uk/blog/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- October Webinars: Code for Performance Free Intel webinars can help you accelerate application performance. Explore tips for MPI, OpenMP, advanced profiling, and more. Get the most from the latest Intel processors and coprocessors. See abstracts and register > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=60135991&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ October Webinars: Code for Performance Free Intel webinars can help you accelerate application performance. Explore tips for MPI, OpenMP, advanced profiling, and more. Get the most from the latest Intel processors and coprocessors. See abstracts and register > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=60135991&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
