Calling a Form from a service

I am just starting VB.Net in order to make a Printing Service for an application.

I have a service, and I was wondering how can I have it start a Windows Form UI when it is started?

So, for example the Form class name is Form1, what code in onStart() will show the form when the service starts?

the form load event...? :confused:

Services are not meant to have a GUI (Graphic User Interface). A service will run under different user credentials and also runs even if no user is logged on.

You should consider making a regular exe that runs in the background instead.

Interesting...

Another question:

Since Services can be made to start Manually, can I have a WindowsForm in which when the user selects some values, it passes those values to the service and start it?

Yes you could do that. You could also use remoting to communicate from a windows application to a windows service at runtime. Of course that solution is a bit of work.