How to create a custom deployment project?
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Hey guys, I need a little help and i am hoping you guys can do the trick. What i need to do is this. I need to create a delployment project that installs a service which I can do, but during the install of the service I need the user to be prompted to enter a server ID and then have that get changed in my source code, so the service knows which server to talk to after it is installed. I am thinking it is pretty easy to do, but I am uncertain how to do it. Please help!! Thanks, Travis
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Hey guys, I need a little help and i am hoping you guys can do the trick. What i need to do is this. I need to create a delployment project that installs a service which I can do, but during the install of the service I need the user to be prompted to enter a server ID and then have that get changed in my source code, so the service knows which server to talk to after it is installed. I am thinking it is pretty easy to do, but I am uncertain how to do it. Please help!! Thanks, Travis
You don't change the source code. Your service should be written to pick up it's configuration from a known place, like a config file or from some place in the registry. The "custom action" (Google this!) in your setup should write that server name to the place where your service expects it.
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