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Jim Toth

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Jim Toth
Can anyone point me in the direction of services that have a system tray
interface?

- Jim T.

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Rick Hodder
Jim,

Dot Net Guruhew is quite right - services are not supposed to have visual
interfaces. The visual interfaces associated with services are separate
programs that monitor the service (like the sql server example he gave you).

You could create a windows application that hides it main window and and
leaves its icon in the system tray, and load the program at startup.

You could then

Rick
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Subject: [ngfx-services] RE: Windows Service and system tray

Can anyone point me in the direction of services that have a system tray
interface?

- Jim T.

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Karell Ste-Marie
Jim,

    What's wrong with simply creating a service and then creating a
simple tray application that talk to the service using COM? It's the
prefered way to talk to services as I understand it.

    That's what I would do if I would be in your shoes, then again,
maybe you know something I don't.

Just a though

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Karell Ste-Marie
C.I.O. BrainBank Inc. - MCSE, MCP+I

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Subject: [ngfx-services] RE: Windows Service and system tray

Can anyone point me in the direction of services that have a system tray
interface?

- Jim T.

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Dot Net Guruhew Reynolds
Hi All,

There was another post about using COM to control the service. In .NET,
there are a couple of better techniques:

1. Publish a service interface using an object hosted in Remoting. The
advantage of this technique is that you would be able to access the "service
interface" from anywhere on the network or Internet. (Obviously, watch the
security on this.)

2. The System.ServiceProcess.ServiceController class allows you to control
any service, security permitting.
http://www.dot-net-guru.com/247reference/System/ServiceProcess/ServiceControlle
r.aspx

I personally think the first option has some interesting possibilities.

Of course, don't forget you could also create an MMC snap-in to provide a
management interface. AFAIK, there's no .NET-specific way of doing this, so
you'll need to get your head into interop.

Dot Net Guruhew
.Net Guru

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Subject: [ngfx-services] RE: Windows Service and system tray

Jim,

Dot Net Guruhew is quite right - services are not supposed to have visual
interfaces. The visual interfaces associated with services are separate
programs that monitor the service (like the sql server example he gave you).

You could create a windows application that hides it main window and and
leaves its icon in the system tray, and load the program at startup.

You could then

Rick
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Rick Hodder
Software Architect
GoAmerica Communications Corp.
(201) 996-1717 x2382
Click here to reveal e-mail address

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Sent: Wed Dec 05 13:34:22 2001
Subject: [ngfx-services] RE: Windows Service and system tray

Can anyone point me in the direction of services that have a system tray
interface?

- Jim T.

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