The Service Control Properties

A service Control Operation allows you to control the behavior of the service right after it is installed.

Service Name

This field contains a string which represents the name of the service to be controlled. This string can be localized and it can contain installer properties. You may choose a service to be installed from the combo box or you can enter the name of a service already installed on the target machine.

Attached Component

In this field you can specify the component which will contain the control operation. You may choose it from the drop-down list box which contains all the components of the package.

Event on install

There are three available options for your service after it is installed:

• Start - the service will start
• Stop - the service will stop
• Delete - the service will be removed

If all three options are checked, the existing service will be stopped and removed and the service in the package will be installed and started.

Event on uninstall

There are three available options for your service when it is uninstalled by your installation package:

• Start - the service will start
• Stop - the service will stop
• Delete - the service will be removed

For the uninstallation of the package you can start only a service which will still be present on the target machine after the uninstall is complete.

Service Parameters

In this section you can specify a list of arguments separated by [~] which will be executed when the service starts. You can localize the value of these arguments. This field is of Formatted Type and can be edited using Smart Edit Control

In case of Merge Module projects the following attributes can be can be made configurable at merge time:

• Name
• Events
• Argument
• Wait