accessing Windows Services help

[Guest]

I have an idea of using a Windows service as a middle tier. Clients will use this middle tier from a small VB application on pc to communicate with a DB server. The middle tier will expose public functions to read and write to the SQL server from the clients. I can’t find any information on how I would actually create public methods in a windows service that can be accessed by a client application. I created a new windows service application with .net 2003, but I have only onstartup, onstop etc. I wish to use this service like a COM object. How would one call a method in a Windows service? or pass parameters to a public function in the service to write values to an SQL server? I have seen this done with a purchased application, but I’m not sure how it was done. Thanks all

 

[Cor Ligthert]

Hi Eric,

We do also a lot of ADONET in this newsgroup. However now you are not
talking about the language but in my idea to the architecture wherefore you
better can have a lot of opinions.

I think that it is more a question for the newsgroup.

Adonet
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Web interface:

<http://communities2.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/?dg=microsof
t.public.dotnet.framework.adonet>


However maybe you get also your answers here.

Cor

 

[Stephen Martin]

What you are looking for is Remoting. This link should give you a starting
place:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...inotherapplicationdomainsusingnetremoting.asp

I have an idea of using a Windows service as a middle tier. Clients will

use this middle tier from a small VB application on pc to communicate with a
DB server. The middle tier will expose public functions to read and write to
the SQL server from the clients. I can't find any information on how I would
actually create public methods in a windows service that can be accessed by
a client application. I created a new windows service application with .net
2003, but I have only onstartup, onstop etc. I wish to use this service like
a COM object. How would one call a method in a Windows service? or pass
parameters to a public function in the service to write values to an SQL
server? I have seen this done with a purchased application, but I'm not sure
how it was done. Thanks all

 

[Guest]

Remoting is it ! thanks all