Re: Same win service with different display names and description

 
Interesting approach. I wonder if this could actually work. The problem is
that I would have to differentiate between installers when I install the
service. Do you know how to do that? I mean, installing the service is as
easy as going:

C:\>installutil yourproject.exe

Looking at the installutil's parameters, I don't see a way of picking which
installer you want to use, nor do I see a way of specifying the display name
and the description for the service.

So it appears that having multiple installers will not do the trick, but I
might be wrong.


Thanks,
Eddie



-----Original Message-----
From: Discussion of advanced .NET topics.
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ryan Heath
Sent: Monday, November 24, 2008 10:35 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [ADVANCED-DOTNET] Same win service with different display names
and description

Would it work to add more than one installer of your service to your
project?

// Ryan

On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 4:17 PM, Eddie Lascu <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I have one windows service that I need to deploy 4 times on a 
> production server. Each service will control a different interface. 
> The interfaces are 100% similar so that is why it made sense to 
> develop only one service. Now, that I need to deploy them, I also need 
> to instantiate them with different display names and descriptions. The 
> display name and the description are properties of the 
> serviceInstaller object. Is there a way to change those two properties 
> other than changing them in my development environment and then 
> recompile the whole service? Is there some kind of configuration file 
> for the service itself where these properties would be stored and then
read by the service during the installation phase?
>
> Thanks for your help,
> Eddie
>
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