Henry Nguy?n wrote:
I have a Windows Service (read a file from Path). Now I program Windows Forms to set path and start above Windows Service...
Can you help me??????
The ServiceController class (require admin/elevation) let you start/stop/pause/resume a windows service:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.serviceprocess.servicecontroller.aspx
If you want more specific/verbose dialogue with your service, you can host a very simple wcf service using, for example, named pipes or another binding.
This way, your winform app can add a service reference to the service and use it remotely.
Please note that if you want to authenticate the client before talking, you may not want to use named pipe binding that does not support security and is only local (client can't live in another pc on the network).
If you either want security or control the service from the network, you can use the other transport/bindings.
This is the correct approach as the service and the client lives in two different processes and also different sessions (session 0 for the service and >0 for interactive desktops).
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