"Arvind Ganesan" <a*@extractsystems.com> wrote in message
news:ewb5yJ%23jGHA.1272@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
> Hi,
>
> I would like to write a service in C# and I have the need to display a UI
> with status information, statistics, etc.  If  I use the Windows Service
> project in C#, I noticed that the System.Windows namespace is not
> available
> to me in the intellisense when I type "using System.".
>
> What is the recommended procedure in C# / .NET for creating services that
> display UI's and need to allow interaction with the desktop?
>
> Thanks in advace,
> Arvind.
>
>

> Arvind,
>
> As far as I know the whole point of a service is that it will always
> run,
> even when there is no desktop (like when no-one is logged on). I've
> build a
> few services myself and those services create a logfile in wich the
> status
> of progress can be retrieved.
> I suppose you could create a monitoring winforms app, this app will
> then be
> communicating with the service. I'm not sure how to approach this but
> maybe
> someone else on this group can help you with that, I would be
> interested in
> this also.
> HTH
> Jurjen
> Netherlands.
> "Arvind Ganesan" <a*@extractsystems.com> wrote in message
> news:ewb5yJ%23jGHA.1272@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I would like to write a service in C# and I have the need to display
>> a UI
>> with status information, statistics, etc.  If  I use the Windows
>> Service
>> project in C#, I noticed that the System.Windows namespace is not
>> available
>> to me in the intellisense when I type "using System.".
>> What is the recommended procedure in C# / .NET for creating services
>> that display UI's and need to allow interaction with the desktop?
>>
>> Thanks in advace,
>> Arvind.