windows service with notify icon and contextmenu.. HELP!

[chinimimita.hernandez]

Does anyone know how windows service work with notifyicon and contextmenu?

I was able to run the windows service with notifyicon part but when I
inserted the contextmenu command it didn't work. When I read the MSDN
articles about the windows service it says that if my WS needs to be
interactive I need to access the unmanaged windows API. but I honestly dont
have idea on how I will inject that part to my code. Can anyone give me
sample on this? Thanks!

[Glenn Wilson]

You can not have a windows service that has a notify icon, or windows form,
which means that you can not have the context menu.

To do this you need to have two applications that run together, I would
suggest remoting as the transport between, this is simular to how the server
manager and SQL Server work.
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Does anyone know how windows service work with notifyicon and contextmenu?

I was able to run the windows service with notifyicon part but when I
inserted the contextmenu command it didn't work. When I read the MSDN
articles about the windows service it says that if my WS needs to be
interactive I need to access the unmanaged windows API. but I honestly
dont have idea on how I will inject that part to my code. Can anyone give
me sample on this? Thanks!