I have a need to send data (text) received via a COM port to the active
window from a Windows service. Can anyone out there suggest how I should
handle this in a .Net, Window XP environment? Thanks.

I don't know... and for a good reason: it is not good practice for a
service to directly interact with the UI - and there is a good chance
that any solution you come up with will stop working under Vista. What
it nobody is logged on? What if several people are loogged on?

It sounds like you are trying to write a keyboard driver... perhaps
you need to look at sending the data to the keyboard buffer instead?

Marc

Thanks for the advice. It has been a while since I developed desktop
applications.

Jim

"Marc Gravell" wrote:

> I don't know... and for a good reason: it is not good practice for a
> service to directly interact with the UI - and there is a good chance
> that any solution you come up with will stop working under Vista. What
> it nobody is logged on? What if several people are loogged on?
>
> It sounds like you are trying to write a keyboard driver... perhaps
> you need to look at sending the data to the keyboard buffer instead?
>
> Marc
>
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>