Summary

In this section, we discussed Windows Services both from the standpoint of working with them via the command line with the sc.exe utility and with WiX. WiX lets you add a new service to the services management console and configure its startup, error logging level, and user account. Services can also be configured so that they depend on other services and have failure recovery. Having all of this functionality built in can really simplify things. In the next chapter, we will discuss how to localize an install package for different languages.