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I have written a windows service (in DOT NET) that goes out and polls the vital signs of a network device and save the data in a database. Now, I would like to embed a windows form into the service and pop it up when called from the system tray.

My question is:

Can I embed a windows form into a windows service and call it from the system tray?

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J.Marc Piulachs

Windows Service
Posted: Friday, December 09, 2005 12:40 AM (EST)

It's usally a very bad idea to have any user interface in a Windows Service. Services are NOT supposed to have User intervention required they run on the background. If you really need that pop-up window, a safe way to do it is to have a standard windows application (independent from your windows Service) listenning through .NET remoting for a notification from the windows service. When some data is available, the service calls a function on the remote object exposed by the normal application, which in turns displays the dialog box.

mamtha prakash

Windows Service
Posted: Thursday, December 21, 2006 2:53 AM (EST)

hi ,

how u have connected the database from the remote machine? have u used the network service account and how u configure the sql server for the same.

Please let me know asap. thank u so much