Is there a way to open a windows form from a windows service?

[Alexander Feygin]

I am monitoring certain events with a windows service
(derived from System.ServiceProcess.ServiceBase).
When a significant event comes up, I'd like to notify
the user with a pop-up dialog box or window.

In my event handler, I create a new thread, inside
which, I have:

MyForm frm = new MyForm();
System.Windows.Forms.Application.Run( frm );

I am able to step into the form initialization and load code,
but I never see the form on the screen. I also don't get
any errors.

What am I doing wrong?

[Magnus]

As far as I've understood it, windows services doesn't have a GUI at all.
I've had the same ideas as you have and in my search, I came across this
article describing how you can have an icon in the system tray (next to the
clock) as your main user interface for a win-forms application.

Check it out and see if it's anything you can use. (The example is in
VB.NET, but is easily converted into C#)

http://www.devcity.net/net/article.a...vicecontroller

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I am monitoring certain events with a windows service
(derived from System.ServiceProcess.ServiceBase).
When a significant event comes up, I'd like to notify
the user with a pop-up dialog box or window.

In my event handler, I create a new thread, inside
which, I have:

MyForm frm = new MyForm();
System.Windows.Forms.Application.Run( frm );

I am able to step into the form initialization and load code,
but I never see the form on the screen. I also don't get
any errors.

What am I doing wrong?

[Judge Bailo Presiding]

Alexander Feygin wrote:

I am monitoring certain events with a windows service
(derived from System.ServiceProcess.ServiceBase).
When a significant event comes up, I'd like to notify
the user with a pop-up dialog box or window.

In my event handler, I create a new thread, inside
which, I have:

MyForm frm = new MyForm();
System.Windows.Forms.Application.Run( frm );

I am able to step into the form initialization and load code,
but I never see the form on the screen. I also don't get
any errors.

What am I doing wrong?

See the thread that mentions WS 2.0

You're looking for your service to act as a push server to a client (
the popup ).