"Mattias Sjögren" wrote:

>
> >We have a window application (in C++) installed as a service in a server
> >machine. We also have a c#.net 2005 application running on client machines.
> >This c#.net applicaiton needs to use the functions provided in that service.
> >
> >How to instantiate/call those functions from a c#.net app? Any reference
> >papers? Thanks a lot.
>
>
> Have you developed the service or is it from some other vendor? If
> it's your own, the easiest way would be to move all the functionality
> to DLL that can then be called either by the service or by your C#
> application.
>
> You can't just call into a service from another application since they
> are running as separate processes (and likely under different security
> contexts). You can however communicate between them using some kind of
> interprocess communication mechanism, if the service is designed to
> handle it of course.
>
>
> Mattias
>
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