How to show form in windows service.

Question

I want to load a form in the OnStart () method in my Windows service; here is my code. This does not work. Can you provide any help?

protected override void OnStart(string[] args)
{
    Form1 fr = new Form1();
    fr.Show();
}

Answer 1

You cannot use services in this way. Services cannot interact directly with the desktop because they are launched in another WindowsStation from a login session. You need to create another application that will communicate with your service.

How to make a communication, which you can read on MSDN , and in this example . Some ideas have also been described already fooobar.com/questions/68717 / ... .

Answer 2

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This is not enough to get a window to display reliably. In practice, you will have to determine if there is a user who is currently logged in and get your desktop. This is not a trivial obligation and can be a source of security problems. If no one is currently registered, you're out of luck.

The best solution is to have a separate graphical application that talks about the service through some IPC mechanism.