VS Setup Project - Installing Assemblies to GAC and starting a service that uses them all in one installation?

A solution is to use a custom action which runs after InstallFinalize in InstallExecuteSequence table. This custom action should use the msidbCustomActionTypeAsync and msidbCustomActionTypeContinue flags so it runs in a separate process after the installation is finished.

This is a well-known issue with the GAC. One option might be to use two separate installers and daisy-chain them. This is the way we have chosen to get around the problem of deploying Microsoft VC runtimes on Vista and later.

If you use the merge modules, any services that depend on them won't start. So in effect you put your GAC-destined components in a pre-installer whose transaction will be completed and committed before you run a second install that installs and starts the services that depend on them. Ugly, I know, but better than a reboot.

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