Hi,
I'm having a hard time getting my service to show a sys tray icon. I've
tried to create a separate Windows application where I simply add a
notification icon to the form. In the OnStart method of the service I simply
try to start the windows application which then should show the icon.
I can't get it to work! When I run the separate Windows application the icon
turns up, but when I start it from the service it doesn't. How should I do
this?
Thanks,
Mats-Lennart
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Mats,
You should not have your service try and show a tray icon. Services, in
general, should not have a user interface. However, that doesn't mean that
you can't have a user interface that communicates with the service. The
reason for this is that you can not always be guaranteed that you will have
an active desktop session to interact with.
What you should do is provide a remoted object that can be connected to,
or use some other kind of communication between the client (which would have
the tray notification icon), and the service.
Hope this helps.
--
- Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]
- mv*@spam.guard.caspershouse.com
"Mats-Lennart Hansson" <ap********@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:%2***************@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl... Hi,
I'm having a hard time getting my service to show a sys tray icon. I've
tried to create a separate Windows application where I simply add a
notification icon to the form. In the OnStart method of the service I
simply try to start the windows application which then should show the icon.
I can't get it to work! When I run the separate Windows application the
icon turns up, but when I start it from the service it doesn't. How should I do
this?
Thanks,
Mats-Lennart
Hi,
Thanks for answering. I understand your point but my problem remains. How do
my service communicate with the user interface program (the client)?
Regards,
Mats-Lennart
"Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]" <mv*@spam.guard.caspershouse.com> wrote in
message news:ue**************@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl... Mats,
You should not have your service try and show a tray icon. Services,
in general, should not have a user interface. However, that doesn't mean
that you can't have a user interface that communicates with the service. The
reason for this is that you can not always be guaranteed that you will
have an active desktop session to interact with.
What you should do is provide a remoted object that can be connected
to, or use some other kind of communication between the client (which would
have the tray notification icon), and the service.
Hope this helps.
--
- Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]
- mv*@spam.guard.caspershouse.com
"Mats-Lennart Hansson" <ap********@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:%2***************@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl... Hi,
I'm having a hard time getting my service to show a sys tray icon. I've
tried to create a separate Windows application where I simply add a
notification icon to the form. In the OnStart method of the service I
simply try to start the windows application which then should show the icon.
I can't get it to work! When I run the separate Windows application the
icon turns up, but when I start it from the service it doesn't. How should I
do this?
Thanks,
Mats-Lennart
Mats,
There are a number of ways to do this. The easiest way would be to
expose an object through remoting which you could connect to through your
client application.
--
- Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]
- mv*@spam.guard.caspershouse.com
"Mats-Lennart Hansson" <ap********@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:ON*************@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl... Hi,
Thanks for answering. I understand your point but my problem remains. How
do my service communicate with the user interface program (the client)?
Regards,
Mats-Lennart
"Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]" <mv*@spam.guard.caspershouse.com> wrote
in message news:ue**************@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl... Mats,
You should not have your service try and show a tray icon.
Services, in general, should not have a user interface. However, that doesn't mean that you can't have a user interface that communicates with the service. The
reason for this is that you can not always be guaranteed that you will
have an active desktop session to interact with.
What you should do is provide a remoted object that can be connected
to, or use some other kind of communication between the client (which would
have the tray notification icon), and the service.
Hope this helps.
--
- Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]
- mv*@spam.guard.caspershouse.com
"Mats-Lennart Hansson" <ap********@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:%2***************@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl... Hi,
I'm having a hard time getting my service to show a sys tray icon.
I've tried to create a separate Windows application where I simply add a
notification icon to the form. In the OnStart method of the service I
simply try to start the windows application which then should show the icon.
I can't get it to work! When I run the separate Windows application
the icon turns up, but when I start it from the service it doesn't. How should
I do this?
Thanks,
Mats-Lennart
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