You can just attribute the appropriate File as a KeyFile (See File/@KeyPath).
-----Original Message----- From: Hans ter Horst [mailto:hoshis...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2013 8:55 PM To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Something I noticed with ServiceInstall (Wix 3,7) Oh, I see, you are referring to the Microsoft Installer internal tables, so nothing can really be done. On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 3:53 AM, Hans ter Horst <hoshis...@gmail.com> wrote: > And the keyfile would be the first file in the Component? Wouldn't it > make sense to make the link to the service install target a bit more > explicit to help people messing about like me? > > Hans > > > On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 3:18 AM, Christopher Painter <chr...@iswix.com>wrote: > >> 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. 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