Installing MultipleInstances With a CustomName Provided

[GovardhanaReddy]

Hi,

We installed your product for Evaluation and validating our requirement checklist.

If we Create a New InstanceId under MultipleInstance Tab and provide the name at build time, yes it will install one more instance, which was fine.

But, if I want to provide a custom instance name at installation time, whether advanced installer creates a new instance with that custom name? We tried couple of ways for achieving this, but no help. It is just like, when we are installing SQL setup, it will give an option for choosing desire instance name.

Thanks for your support

[Dan]

Hello and welcome to Advanced Installer forums,

Thank you for your interest in Advanced Installer.

When you install a new instance of your application, you can select the Choose custom name for the instance: option as it can be seen in the attachement:

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Type your desired name for the related instance.

Please let us know if that helped, otherwise give us more details.

Best regards,
Dan

[GovardhanaReddy]

Thanks for your quick response. We are working on a c# windows project. So after installation, a windows service needs to be installed too.

Now with the option which you mentioned above, is it possible to run a service which will be having the same custom name given by an user?

Thank you for your support

[Dan]

Hello,

In order to add a service, you can go in the Services page and use the the [ New Service... ] toolbar button or press the Insert key while the “Install and Control” panel is focused. The File Picker Dialog dialog will appear and you can select the file containing the service.

Please note that the Service Name field supports PseudoFormatted references and can be edited using Smart Edit control. Formatted references can be used but it is not recommended due to Microsoft Restart Manager limitations. Display Name and Description fields support Formatted references and can be edited using Smart Edit control.

Please note that when you choose custom name for an instance than the ProductName is the property that will contain your instance name. So, in the Service name field you can have something like:

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[ProductName]

If you have other questions, please let us know.

Best regards,
Dan