Need some high level Code Pattern help 1

[tlhawkins]

Hey,

I'm building a service that needs to have an admin/UI form minimized to the system tray.

I've built services with no user interaction and I've built windows programs that could minimize to the system tray. I'm just not sure how to get the 2 together.

It seems like making 2 programs (1 windows service, 1 windows app) would run into problems with interacting with each other while the service was running and I'll need to be able to see changes made by the service from the UI in real time.

I have all the parts built, I just want to be able to put them together in the best possible way.

Any thoughts on what would be the best way to go about this?
Thanks!

Travis Hawkins
jobs.bestcodingpractices.com

 

[PGO01]

I remember reading something that might be relevant here:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308403

"This article describes how to design a Windows service application to interact with users through a graphical user interface (GUI) on a multiuser system."

Hope it helps.

 

[tlhawkins]

Thanks PG,
That's exactly what I was looking for, have some more reading to do now
and a little recoding, but it sounds like the perfect method.