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installer project for it, which I again created using Visual Studio 2003. It all works fine on Windows XP, but I can't get the service installed on Vista. It gets 90% of the way through the progress dialog, and then just stops (forever). There are no dialogs, and no event logs or even log files that let me know what's going wrong. I tried turning off UAC but that didn't seem to make any difference. I've virtually no experience of using Vista let alone programming for it, so I may be missing something obvious. I guess the first question I should ask is: is it even possible to build an installer for a Windows Service using Visual Studio 2003 that will actually work on Vista? aTdHvAaNnKcSe Gary
This type of custom action fails on Vista because they run with
impersonation of the installing user but as as a limited user. Visual Studio doesn't expose the bit you need to set in the custom actions, the msidbCustomActionTypeNoImpersonate bit. You'd have to open the MSI file with Orca, find your custom action in the CustomAction table and change it from (probably) 1024 to 1024+that bit value. I suspect that people have automated this with code but I can't find it. It should work ok if you use a setup.exe to launch it (you could use the one from VS 2005 if you build a setup project of the same name and use Prerequisites to create a bootstrapper setup.exe). I believe setup.exe will ask for elevation and then run as elevated administrator, then launch the MSI file which will also run as elevated administrator. -- Phil Wilson [Microsoft MVP-Windows Installer] [quoted text, click to view] "Gary McGill" <gary.mcgill@electrum.co.uk> wrote in message news:%23TLOHEZFIHA.5208@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... >I have a Windows Service written in C# using Visual Studio 2003. I have an >installer project for it, which I again created using Visual Studio 2003. > > It all works fine on Windows XP, but I can't get the service installed on > Vista. It gets 90% of the way through the progress dialog, and then just > stops (forever). There are no dialogs, and no event logs or even log files > that let me know what's going wrong. I tried turning off UAC but that > didn't seem to make any difference. > > I've virtually no experience of using Vista let alone programming for it, > so I may be missing something obvious. > > I guess the first question I should ask is: is it even possible to build > an installer for a Windows Service using Visual Studio 2003 that will > actually work on Vista? > > aTdHvAaNnKcSe > Gary >
Thanks Phil. I'll try the MSI hack.
[quoted text, click to view] "Phil Wilson" <pdjwilson@nospam.cox.net> wrote in message news:OtFJ5G%23FIHA.1188@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... > This type of custom action fails on Vista because they run with > impersonation of the installing user but as as a limited user. Visual > Studio doesn't expose the bit you need to set in the custom actions, the > msidbCustomActionTypeNoImpersonate bit. You'd have to open the MSI file > with Orca, find your custom action in the CustomAction table and change it > from (probably) 1024 to 1024+that bit value. I suspect that people have > automated this with code but I can't find it. > > It should work ok if you use a setup.exe to launch it (you could use the > one from VS 2005 if you build a setup project of the same name and use > Prerequisites to create a bootstrapper setup.exe). I believe setup.exe > will ask for elevation and then run as elevated administrator, then launch > the MSI file which will also run as elevated administrator. > -- > Phil Wilson > [Microsoft MVP-Windows Installer] > > "Gary McGill" <gary.mcgill@electrum.co.uk> wrote in message > news:%23TLOHEZFIHA.5208@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... >>I have a Windows Service written in C# using Visual Studio 2003. I have an >>installer project for it, which I again created using Visual Studio 2003. >> >> It all works fine on Windows XP, but I can't get the service installed on >> Vista. It gets 90% of the way through the progress dialog, and then just >> stops (forever). There are no dialogs, and no event logs or even log >> files that let me know what's going wrong. I tried turning off UAC but >> that didn't seem to make any difference. >> >> I've virtually no experience of using Vista let alone programming for it, >> so I may be missing something obvious. >> >> I guess the first question I should ask is: is it even possible to build >> an installer for a Windows Service using Visual Studio 2003 that will >> actually work on Vista? >> >> aTdHvAaNnKcSe >> Gary >> > >
Phil,
I tried using Orca to edit the MSI. I've never used (or heard of) Orca before, and I really have no idea what it was that I was editing, but from what I could gather after a long trawl on the net, I decided that the numbers in the "Type" column were the ones I should change, and that I should change only the ones that were already >= 1024. There were 4 numbers in Custom Actions that were > 1024 and I added 2048 to them all. See http://senduit.com/448a57 for a screenshot of what my Custom Actions table looked like prior to the changes. (Expires in 1 week). Anyway, I tried that on the Vista machine, and this time there was a slight difference in that it gave me a security prompt it didn't do before. However, it then ran to the same point that it did before, and stalled just like before. (If it helps, the progress bar went all the way to the end, then started again from the beginning and got nearly to the end, then backtracked a little bit and stopped; what a great progress bar that is!). Because it just hangs, I don't know what's up. I can't find any logging. Note that I was able to install (and start) the service (using both the modified and the un-modified MSI) on another Vista machine that has different policy settings (i.e. where you don't need to jump through hoops to install stuff). So, there is a working installer hiding in there. Any ideas on what I should try next? Thanks, Gary [quoted text, click to view] "Phil Wilson" <pdjwilson@nospam.cox.net> wrote in message news:OtFJ5G%23FIHA.1188@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... > This type of custom action fails on Vista because they run with > impersonation of the installing user but as as a limited user. Visual > Studio doesn't expose the bit you need to set in the custom actions, the > msidbCustomActionTypeNoImpersonate bit. You'd have to open the MSI file > with Orca, find your custom action in the CustomAction table and change it > from (probably) 1024 to 1024+that bit value. I suspect that people have > automated this with code but I can't find it. > > It should work ok if you use a setup.exe to launch it (you could use the > one from VS 2005 if you build a setup project of the same name and use > Prerequisites to create a bootstrapper setup.exe). I believe setup.exe > will ask for elevation and then run as elevated administrator, then launch > the MSI file which will also run as elevated administrator. > -- > Phil Wilson > [Microsoft MVP-Windows Installer] > > "Gary McGill" <gary.mcgill@electrum.co.uk> wrote in message > news:%23TLOHEZFIHA.5208@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... >>I have a Windows Service written in C# using Visual Studio 2003. I have an >>installer project for it, which I again created using Visual Studio 2003. >> >> It all works fine on Windows XP, but I can't get the service installed on >> Vista. It gets 90% of the way through the progress dialog, and then just >> stops (forever). There are no dialogs, and no event logs or even log >> files that let me know what's going wrong. I tried turning off UAC but >> that didn't seem to make any difference. >> >> I've virtually no experience of using Vista let alone programming for it, >> so I may be missing something obvious. >> >> I guess the first question I should ask is: is it even possible to build >> an installer for a Windows Service using Visual Studio 2003 that will >> actually work on Vista? >> >> aTdHvAaNnKcSe >> Gary >> > >
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