GUI monitor app to connect to service app

[Mike Stephens]

I would like to write a service app, a simple application that runs in the
background and does its thing, and not necessarily running on the local
machine. This service app will not have any GUI output. I then need to
write the monitor GUI. This will "connect" to the service app and display
all the output information.

Eg..
Service App. This could be a simple application that checks a a FTP service
and downloads new files if available. The app will not have any GUI output
screen.

GUI Monitor App. This would display all the messages of the service app. You
could specify either local machine or machine name and it would somehow
connect to the Service app and display all messages "sent" by the service.

 

[Huy Nguyen [MSFT]]

Hi,

This article from MSDN has sample code on how to communicate between 2
applications that can apply for your situation.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnwinforms/
html/reaworapps1.asp

Hope it helps.

--
Huy Nguyen, Visual Basic team.

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