We install a windows service from a custom action as described here: CodeProject
Every so often, when uninstalling our application, it does not properly uninstall the service. Instead it "marks the service for deletion".
You can see this message by running installutil.exe /u on our executable, when it is supposedly uninstalled.
Has anyone seen this issue or know a workaround? If a service is somehow installed with the same name as ours, we'd like to replace it. Instead the msi setup fails, giving a message saying our service is already installed.
Is there a way to do it without making a custom action to first uninstall any existing instances of our service's name before running the install custom action?
