I Hav Created A Windows Service And Windows From Application And How Do I Add Intercommunication Among These 2 Things

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my windows form should only run when this service is running and whenever a user enters data using that form that should be inserted into sql database.. is there any way to do this?
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Suresh Chinna

Posted 11-Jun-14 20:19pm

Chinna Suresh

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Prasad Avunoori 12-Jun-14 2:37am

Can you please brief what does your windows service and windows application do? Why do you want to connect them?

Chinna Suresh 12-Jun-14 3:42am

yea !
my windows form should take the details from the user and store them in a sql database !
it should do that whenever this service is running

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Accepted Answer · 2014-06-11T21:22:00

Apparently, you will need to use IPC: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inter-process_communication[^].

It could be sockets (sockets can be used for communications on the same machine; that is what they were originally developed for), named pipes, or, on higher level, "classical" remoting or WPF. Both technologies have "IPC" channels which are based on those named pipes.

As the Window Service is, well… a service and its lifetime is more than that of a UI application, the adequate role of it in this communication with your UI is the server part. You can self-host WPF in the service, have a listening socket using TcpListener and so on. The UI application should connect (or rather try to connect) to the service when it takes a chance for it. For example, you may find it appropriate to register it in the system registry to be run on the user log on. Again, this is only an example; you should do whatever is appropriate according to your goals.

—SA