How to reboot at end of deployment

[Dave]

My deployment contains sevral projects, one of which is a service. The
installation does not automatically carry out a reboot at the end of the
installation process, which is required to start the service. Is there any
way I can put something into the deplyment project to make the target system
reboot at the end of the setup?
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Dave

[Tasos Vogiatzoglou]

You will have to restort to WinApi and pinvoke.

There is an example in MSDN at :

ms-help://MS.MSDNQTR.2005 APR.1033/sysinfo/base/how_to_shut_dow n_the_system.ht m

Regards,
Tasos

[Dave]

Thanks Tasos, but your link didn't work. Perhaps I should have mentioned that
I am using VS2003.
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Dave
"Tasos Vogiatzoglou" wrote:

You will have to restort to WinApi and pinvoke.

There is an example in MSDN at :

ms-help://MS.MSDNQTR.2005 APR.1033/sysinfo/base/how_to_shut_dow n_the_system.ht m

Regards,
Tasos

[Michael Nemtsev]

Hello Dave,

Here http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...the_system.asp

D> Thanks Tasos, but your link didn't work. Perhaps I should have
D> mentioned that I am using VS2003.
D>
D> "Tasos Vogiatzoglou" wrote:
D>

You will have to restort to WinApi and pinvoke.

There is an example in MSDN at :

ms-help://MS.MSDNQTR.2005 APR.1033/sysinfo/base/how_to_shut_dow n_the_s
ystem.htm

Regards,
Tasos

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WBR,
Michael Nemtsev :: blog: http://spaces.msn.com/laflour

"At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not
cease to be insipid." (c) Friedrich Nietzsche

[PIEBALD]

> My deployment contains sevral projects, one of which is a service. The

installation does not automatically carry out a reboot at the end of the
installation process, which is required to start the service. Is there any
way I can put something into the deplyment project to make the target system
reboot at the end of the setup?

Pop up a dialog that says "You need to reboot" :)

I would have the service start without the reboot.

[PIEBALD]

Wow. But perhaps "Displaying the Shutdown Dialog Box" (two subjects lower) is
more user-friendly?

[Dave]

Thanks Michael and Piebald for both those references , however they are not
exactly easy to pop into my deployment project. I presume I have to write a
program to do it, and then call it as a Custom Action in the deployment
project, is that the idea?
--
Dave
"PIEBALD" wrote:

Wow. But perhaps "Displaying the Shutdown Dialog Box" (two subjects lower) is
more user-friendly?

[Dave]

So would I. Do you know how to make the deployment project do that?
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Dave
"PIEBALD" wrote:

My deployment contains sevral projects, one of which is a service. The
installation does not automatically carry out a reboot at the end of the
installation process, which is required to start the service. Is there any
way I can put something into the deplyment project to make the target system
reboot at the end of the setup?

Pop up a dialog that says "You need to reboot" :)

I would have the service start without the reboot.

[Michael Nemtsev]

Hello PIEBALD,

P> Wow. But perhaps "Displaying the Shutdown Dialog Box" (two subjects
P> lower) is more user-friendly?

Sure. Because user, not you decided when restart system :)

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WBR,
Michael Nemtsev :: blog: http://spaces.msn.com/laflour

"At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not
cease to be insipid." (c) Friedrich Nietzsche

[PIEBALD]

> So would I. Do you know how to make the deployment project do that?

Well, I've never done it, I haven't fiddled with custom actions yet either.

But I _have_ written a service, which resides in an EXE which can take
command-line parameters to do such things. The code I have is pretty
convoluted, but look into:

System.ServiceP rocess.ServiceC ontroller svc = new
System.ServiceP rocess.ServiceC ontroller
(
"ServiceNam e"
) ;

if ( ( svc.Status != System.ServiceP rocess.ServiceC ontrollerStatus .Running )
&&
( svc.Status != System.ServiceP rocess.ServiceC ontrollerStatus .StartPending ) )
{
svc.Start() ;
svc.WaitForStat us (
System.ServiceP rocess.ServiceC ontrollerStatus .Running ) ;
}

You could probably write a simple program that simply does that and have the
custom action run it.