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Mar 30, 2010
08:20 AM
ServiceAddService removes quotes
In order to avoid this issue, http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q325680 as has been reported for an earlier version of our installer (using InstallShield Developer 8.2) I attempted to add quotes around the service path (using LongPathToQuote) when installing using ServiceAddService, but the function seems to strip away the quotes. In the earlier version of our installer I used the windows API calls directly to install our services and those calls excepted the quotes around the file path.
Is there a way to force ServiceAddService to leave the quotes in the path? As it is now, a service installed to C:\Program Files\AppName\Service.exe will not start if you create a file named C:\Program, if quotes are added around the path, i.e. "C:\Program Files\AppName\Service.exe" then the service will start.
Is there a way to force ServiceAddService to leave the quotes in the path? As it is now, a service installed to C:\Program Files\AppName\Service.exe will not start if you create a file named C:\Program, if quotes are added around the path, i.e. "C:\Program Files\AppName\Service.exe" then the service will start.
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Jun 24, 2010
09:57 AM
Well what do you know, looks like this has been fixed in IS2010. Just noticed it after revisiting this issue after the upgrade.
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