system tray or windows services?!!

[Jassim Rahma]

did you see the CNN or BBC dekstop news alert software? I want to develop
the same but for banner advertisment and I want to if I should do it as
system tray ir windows services?

 

[Hans Kesting]

did you see the CNN or BBC dekstop news alert software? I want to

develop the same but for banner advertisment and I want to if I should
do it as system tray ir windows services?

For a service it's difficult to interact with the desktop. Also you don't
need
to run this if noone is logged in, so a systray application would seem
best in this case.

Hans Kesting

 

[Kevin Spencer]

No, you should not.

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[Tim Haughton]

Hi Jassim,

did you see the CNN or BBC dekstop news alert software? I want to develop
the same but for banner advertisment and I want to if I should do it as
system tray ir windows services?

A windows service would be a bad choice, they're designed to run at all
times and rarely have interaction with users. The systray, aka the
notification area is there for applications that require infrequent user
interaction to notify the user of some event, or as a place to park.

It sounds like your app would be a reasonable choice for the systray. But
what would you notification are icon do? Although, the thought of having any
kind of banner on my desktop makes my skin crawl

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[Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]]

Not only is it difficult, in Windows Vista, it is forbidden.

 

[Tim Haughton]

Not only is it difficult, in Windows Vista, it is forbidden.

There's forbidden, and there's *forbidden*. Which do you mean? :¬)

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Tim Haughton

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[Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]]

*forbidden* as in the option isn't even there anymore.

 

[Ben Voigt [C++ MVP]]

*forbidden* as in the option isn't even there anymore.

No, it's only mostly forbidden. You can certainly enumerate the desktops
and interact with them. You just can't have the real desktop as your
process default.

But it's much better to do privilege separation and uses named pipes or some
other IPC mechanism to handle user input.

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