Install Shield Limited Edition WIndows service

Question

I was using the Visual Studio installer project for installing my product. Now it looks like the official approach is to use Install Shield Limited Edition project. Now I checked in the Limited Edition project type, and there does not appear to be a way to install windows service. Also the support for custom action also does not seem to be there. Am I missing something ?. Basically will I be able to do the following -

1. Create a windows service installer project in Install Shield Limited Edition.
2. Add custom actions - does not look like
3. Silent installer.

Summitry

has your problem sorted ?? – Chessman

possible duplicate of How do i create an InstallShield LE project to install a windows service? – Shipp

Answer 1

Take a look at:

Augmenting InstallShield using Windows Installer XML - Windows Services

For the links to related posts. Basically LE is limited ( upgrade-ware ) but there are clean ways of extending it if you don't want to upgrade to Professional. ( $1500 )

LE always generates SETUP.EXE's ( MSI's compressed inside ) so silent installation is:

setup.exe /s /v"/qn"

Fewer

I believe recent versions of ISLE now support native MSI service functionality without having to do this. – Fewer

Answer 2

Install Shield limited edition can install windows services out of the box. Take a look at SO:How do i create an InstallShield LE project to install a windows service? to learn how.

Meleager

There's a huge difference between native support and out of process support. – Fewer