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I want to create a communication between a windows service and a desktop application on Windows 7.
I read that named pipes are one way for communication between two processes. Can i use them for my purpose?
sure you can use named pipes, WCF many other IPC methods.
for named pipe example among stack overflow questions, see here as well for some backgound:
Inter process communication using Windows service
also check this one: GUI and windows service communication