Windowsservice needs to receive events

[Mathias Fritsch]

What is a good way to have a windowsservice receive events?
I want to change some settings of the service without restarting it
(mainly log-level of log4net ).

I thought about using MSMQ.
The problem I see with it is: If the service is not startet messages
are not consumed.

regards
Mathias Fritsch

 

[Kevin Spencer]

You can have the service set up a TcpListener on a given port, or if you
want to go with .Net 3.0, use a WCF Service Class, which can be configured
to send and receive messages from any number of channels. For more
information on WCF, see
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/netframework/aa663324.aspx.

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Kevin Spencer
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[Phil]

Use a FileSystemWatcher object on your App.config or other config file.

Phil