Making service to interact with desktop programmatically

[pvenkatesh2k4]

hi i am new to .net development,
i have created a service which has forms to interact with user. now before starting the service , i need to change the property of service to interact with desktop.after installing i need to do this every time. to solve this issue i found a code that changes the value of service property.i have used this following code in afterinstall callback method()

RegistryKey ckey = Registry.LocalMachine.OpenSubKey(
@"SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\WindowsService 1", true);
// Good to always do error checking!

if(ckey != null)
{
// Ok now lets make sure the "Type" value is there,

//and then do our bitwise operation on it.

if(ckey.GetValue("Type") != null)
{
ckey.SetValue("Type", ((int)ckey.GetValue("Type") | 256));
}
}
}



this code changes the property as allow service to interact with desktop. but when i am starting the service forms are not shown....

how to solve this issue?
thanks in advance..

[Plater]

Why not just make a gui application that talks to the service, and leave the service running as a service?

[pvenkatesh2k4]

Why not just make a gui application that talks to the service, and leave the service running as a service?

if it is my own application then it is no problem to design that as Form;but it is different application like gateway. the service needs to run this application in on start.to start the application i included the code in onstart funcion; that gateway application requires user interaction. so inorder to do that i need the service interact desktop property needs to be set.