How do I display icon in system tray of running windows service

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I have one Windows service which is running in background sucsessfully but i want to show it in system tray so that i can check it in tray whether it is running or stoped. and able to change its configuration as like in control panel.

How could I achieve this?
Thnks in advance!!

Posted 3-Sep-15 20:23pm

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Garth J Lancaster · Answer 1 · 2015-09-03T20:36:00

Well ... an answer to this is 'you don't' - you have two separate programs, your service and a system tray app and you communicate between them - using some form of IPC - for example, named pipes - here's one discussion you may find useful Interaction between services and applications at user level in Windows Vista[^] - you can also uses TCP/IP sockets etc

You can also (from the System Tray App) issue 'custom commands' to the service through the SCM

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The two links for Custom Commands are https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.serviceprocess.servicecontroller.executecommand(v=vs.110).aspx[^] and https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.serviceprocess.servicebase.oncustomcommand(v=vs.110).aspx[^] [/modified]

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