Passing data to a Windows service?

Is it possible to pass data to a Windows service?

For example, I want to create a service that run an event at a specified interval, however I want to be able to externally control that interval. Can I write another Windows application that will communicate directly with the service?

Thanks!!

hmm..good question..You actually should be able to. If you have a Shared/Static class, you should be able to instantiate the class of the running service. But I am just guessing , but that sounds possible.

I don't know exactly what you mean, but if you are talking about a function instead of an instance, you could put your code in a public shared function which can be called witihin your app from anywhere...

To pass data itself you could try making a seperate class and dim it with ByRef.

Dozo :)