system service

[gccosta]

how can i make my application be a windows service??
but, i still want to see the screen of the application, but when i minimized it, it gets running on system tray as a windows service, so all users could see the application running and use it, but when they log off, the application will be still running.

Thank you,
Guilherme Costa

[powdir]

A 'service' does not communicate with the user via a UI naturally - if you want to have this level of functionality you could either:

--use remoting to gain access to a 'controller' object published by your service.

--use the command method of the service to pass in integer arguments. Your service could interpret these as actions through a switch/case block.

--use vb6 to write a MMC snap-in for your service. The OCX's are part of the .NET sdk i believe. I have only caught a glimpse of some examples using this, but they are ou there.

...if your current application has a lot of user interaction though i would doubt if it would (or should!) translate to a service easily.

[gccosta]

yes, it have a loooot of user interaction!

i won't do it like windows service, no way to do that in such little time i have!!

Thanks,
Guilherme Costa

[powdir]

probably best not to then

...good luck

Cheers!