Windows Service with WPF management tool
i'm trying to create a windows service with C# in .net that runs before the user is logged on... then when a user is logged on a symbol should appear in the system tray (next to the clock) to show the us开发者_如何学Goer that the service is running.. by double clicking that symbol a configuration utility (written in wpf) should be shown to the user, so he can configure the service, read data from it and so on ..
is there a possibility to do this within one application?
thanks in advance for any help!!!
No, you can't do this with one application as services run with a different user in a different session. You need to create two applications and implement some communication between both.
I would not recommend using named pipes directly (like Kieren Johnstone suggested), but to have a look at WCF which was designed for interprocess communication and nicely abstracts implementation details of the communication technology away from you. Here is a link that can propably help you with WCF: http://www.switchonthecode.com/tutorials/wcf-tutorial-basic-interprocess-communication.
Best Regards,
Oliver Hanappi
Within one application, no. Services run in session 0, please see here:
http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/system/sysinternals/session0changes.mspx
Your best bet is to used Named Pipes, see here:
http://www.switchonthecode.com/tutorials/dotnet-35-adds-named-pipes-support
....or a memory mapped file, see here:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd997372.aspx
Within the scope of more-.NETty, you could also use Remoting. You'll need to come up with some interface or protocol to facilitate communication between the service and the management utility. Managing the process start/stop would be easier and you could use the ServiceController
class (MSDN ref).
Hope that helps (and itsn't too discouraging)!
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