Metro GUI connection to background (service) MFC C++ app question

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Hi, A Quick question to send me in the right direction, I have a very large existing MFC C++ app that runs in the background (optionally as a windows NT service).
I don't want to re-write it for Metro as it's file & processing intensive and not suitable for it.

Whilst in Metro mode - can I write a new C++ Metro style GUI app that connects to this app already running in desktop mode for configuration & control purposes?

Is this possible? What do you think is the best way? thru the registry? or windows sockets? or another way?

Thanks,
Lee.

Posted 29-Dec-12 5:32am

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Philippe Mori · Answer 1 · 2013-01-03T05:04:00

As a general rule of the thumb, this is not what Microsoft want you to do. How will it works on Windows RT where there are no legacy desktop applications?

I would think that something along the line of web services might be an option. In that case, the server might even be remote.

Presently even Microsoft applications like Internet Explorer are far from ideal as the only option they gave is to open a page into the desktop...

I would think that for the short term there are a lot of limitations and the future is probably a lot dependant upon the success of Windows Store applications, how much people still uses the desktop and also upon what Microsoft do with its own products.

Oleksandr Kulchytskyi · Answer 2 · 2012-12-29T06:56:00

Solution 1

Communication between new Metro API model and old plain legacy of Desktop?
I think No rather then Yes.
Can your MFC project send push notification to metro? - I'm sure that No.

Posted 29-Dec-12 6:56am

Oleksandr Kulchytskyi