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I’m wondering if it’s possible to create a windows service in .NET and then create another windows.forms process that connects to the service and passes parameters, modifies and views its datastructures and connected database, etc.
I believe that in Vista this is only possible with the use of sockets, and not with a ServiceController class. Can anyone direct me to examples or tutorials on how to do this, please?
Thanks!
I’m not aware of a
ServiceControllerlimitation, but then: I rarely use Vista ;-pRather than raw sockets… one option is to have the service act as a WCF host, via
ServiceHost. Your app would be a WCF client, (proxy generated viasvcutil.exeor via the IDE). This would make it painless to talk to, The only question would be which channel to use – perhaps named pipes, since that is machine specific.