How does one stop a Windows service to do an upgrade install?

Question

I have developed a Windows service along with a setup project using Visual Studio 2008. When I do an upgrade install I get the following warning:

The following appli

Answer 1

If you want to go down the route of editing the MSI ServiceControl table, this following VBS script worked for me:

Dim installer, database, view, result
Set installer = CreateObject("WindowsInstaller.Installer")
Set database = installer.OpenDatabase ("Installer.msi", 1)
Set view = database.OpenView("INSERT INTO ServiceControl (ServiceControl,Name,Event,Arguments,Wait,Component_) VALUES ('ServiceName','ServiceName',170,null,null,'C__751A71A3822A287367770DB29839A759')") 
view.Execute
database.Commit
Set database = nothing