How to send a message from Windows Service to Windows Form application?

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I have two applications, one Windows Service, second Windows Forms application. What would be the best way to send a message (its a small string 10 character length) from Windows Service to Windows Forms.

Any simple approach is highly appreciated.

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Kishore

Posted 8-Dec-09 23:16pm

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Abhishek Sur · Answer 1 · 2009-12-09T02:24:00

You might use common storage to update this. Place your data in Registry / diskfile or whereever you want, and access it from both the process. This is the easiest.

Other than that, you might also use Named Pipes to send messages between two processes. Read this :

http://www.switchonthecode.com/tutorials/interprocess-communication-using-named-pipes-in-csharp[^]
http://www.codeguru.com/Csharp/Csharp/cs_network/remoting/article.php/c7259/[^]

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josefvz · Answer 2 · 2009-12-09T02:10:00

Solution 1

I think the simplest would be to have a function in your form that queries the service, and returns the value.

You can put it in a thread, or a timer.

I Agree With Answer 2.

Posted 9-Dec-09 2:10am

josefvz

Updated 12-Jan-10 20:30pm

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