Stopping a service before update

We plan to add this directly in wyBuild in the future, but yes, for now you need to stop the service within your own code before it can be updated. You can do this a few ways (including using AutomaticUpdater events), but by far the best way is this:

Stop the services before updating using a batch file

Simply add 2 batch files to your update in the Temporary folder. One batch file will stop the service before an update. The other batch file will stop the service after an update:

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Simply check the "Execute file" checkbox to execute the batch files. Read more about Executing files in your update. There are several article online describing how to start and stop services as part of a batch file. Here are a couple that I found in a quick search:

• Stop and Start a service via batch or cmd file?
• Create Batch File to Start or End Windows Services

Tell me if this helps.

Hello,

I have finally tried to use these suggestions and I found that wyUpdate is first asking me close the process (the actual service) and only after that is running the batch file that was configured to stop it. I've put a "PAUSE" command in the batch file just to see when it runs. The "stop_service.cmd" file that I use is configured in wyBuild to be executed before the update begins and to wait for the executions to finish before continuing. Am I doing something wrong?

The start_service.cmd works fine and at least the service is restarted even though the user has to kill the process during the update.

You're right, there's no proper way to update services. We're going to add this in wyBuild 2.6.8 or 2.6.9.

Thank you the reply. I will try to see if I can embed the service stopping/restarting in the application itself before the AutomaticUpdater starts.

Now in wyBuild 2.6.7 you can Start and Stop services. Simply go to the "Update Actions" and add an action to stop the services before the update, and add another action to start the services after the update.

See Starting and Stopping Windows Services.

Woot! This is great, thanks.