[DUG] TService and Windows Messaging

[Paul Heinz]

myOffice Email MessageGary asked:
  Has anyone worked out a simple way to communicate to a Windows Service
using windows messaging. There appears to be a proprietary solution (Aldyn),
but I don't want to go down that track at this stage.
Services are discouraged from interacting with the UI (as they have to run
without a user session so things get tricky when they try to do foreground
stuff) hence no Window handles to talk to.

If you want to talk to a service, other forms of IPC are best i.e.
Mailslots, Named pipes, shared memory, etc. Named pipes and Mailslots are
handy since they are network transparent so you can talk to a service
instance on a remote server.

TTFN,
  Paul.
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