Windows services UI

[Gav]

Hi all,

Can anybody point to examples on the internet of adding a user interface to
a windows service? I can find plenty on controlling the services, IE
starting stopping them etc. I want to be able to write a windows service
that can interact with the desktop and user when they are logged in via
terminal services as well as locally.

The reason I'm after this is I want to create a windows service that
executes a function depending on a schedule I want the users to easily be
able to change that schedule.

Thanks
Gav

[John Timney \( MVP \)]

Why dont you just create an application to change the scheduling data, both
the service and the application can read the same data - perhaps held in the
local registry, or a simple xml file.

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Regards

John Timney
Microsoft MVP

"Gav" <sp**@spam.com> wrote in message
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Hi all,

Can anybody point to examples on the internet of adding a user interface
to a windows service? I can find plenty on controlling the services, IE
starting stopping them etc. I want to be able to write a windows service
that can interact with the desktop and user when they are logged in via
terminal services as well as locally.

The reason I'm after this is I want to create a windows service that
executes a function depending on a schedule I want the users to easily be
able to change that schedule.

Thanks
Gav

[John A. Bailo]

Well, those two don't have to be the same thing right.

You could write:

1) Windows service that executes the scheduled functions from a
database, or XML file.

2) A Windows form application that puts data into the database or XML
file, to be read by the Windows service.

Gav wrote:

Hi all,

Can anybody point to examples on the internet of adding a user interface to
a windows service? I can find plenty on controlling the services, IE
starting stopping them etc. I want to be able to write a windows service
that can interact with the desktop and user when they are logged in via
terminal services as well as locally.

The reason I'm after this is I want to create a windows service that
executes a function depending on a schedule I want the users to easily be
able to change that schedule.

Thanks
Gav

[Gav]

Thanks for the advise guys...

It certainly seems the way to go, I just thought what I was initially
looking at may have been simple. Either way will still do the same job,
thanks again.

Regards
Gav

"John A. Bailo" <ja*****@texeme.com> wrote in message
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Well, those two don't have to be the same thing right.

You could write:

1) Windows service that executes the scheduled functions from a database,
or XML file.

2) A Windows form application that puts data into the database or XML
file, to be read by the Windows service.

Gav wrote:

Hi all,

Can anybody point to examples on the internet of adding a user interface
to a windows service? I can find plenty on controlling the services, IE
starting stopping them etc. I want to be able to write a windows service
that can interact with the desktop and user when they are logged in via
terminal services as well as locally.

The reason I'm after this is I want to create a windows service that
executes a function depending on a schedule I want the users to easily be
able to change that schedule.

Thanks
Gav

[hB]

Wanna be hitech?
Host Asp.Net and create asp pages. Then user can interact through IE /
http-web as well as web application, you can then even host web svc
within win svc.

Else just create a simplest tcp-socket-adapter and implement minimal
http and let users interact with it, in this way u hav full control.

User can connect from anywhere to interact / Monitor* your
windows_service activities.

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hB