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I moved the same question below...I also updated it with the exception.System.Threading.WaitHandleCannotBeOpenedException

Thank you Sergey, I am trying to signal a windows forms application from a Windows Service using the named events. I understand AutoResetEvents and ManualResetEvents are mainly used for thread synchronization, but now I have a requirement to use named events to signal a Windows Forms application. After reading your comment I started looking into EventWaitHandler and modifed my code and Here it is

Windows Service Code:

public void SetSignalToClient()
{

System.Threading.EventWaitHandle wh = EventWaitHandle.OpenExisting("MyEventName", EventWaitHandleRights.Modify);

wh.Set();
}

Windows Forms Application:
public void ReceiveSignalFromClient()
{
textBox1.Text = "Successful";
while (true)
{
EventWaitHandle wh = new EventWaitHandle(false, EventResetMode.AutoReset, "MyEventName");
wh.WaitOne();
textBox1.Text = "Failed";
}

}

But, my service is crashing with an exception. Please let me know if I am missing something.In Event Viewer I found the exception as: System.Threading.WaitHandleCannotBeOpenedException

Thanks for the link, but I Dont think our management is planing to upgrade the game to XNA 4.0

Awesome Sinisa Hajnal. It worked. Thank you. I was thinking all the references would been loaded in the beginning, so why does the order so important?