Window service using UI

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I made a window service .I want to open a window form on start of the window service. Am able to open it in window XP but for window vista and window7 its not working. can anyone please help.

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Posted 4-Jul-12 20:34pm

pallavi Praharaj

Updated 4-Jul-12 23:44pm

Sandeep Mewara

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Accepted Answer · 2012-07-04T20:40:00

This is so good that is does not work. It is done to prevent the harm you could make yourself by creating a form in the service. When you think about the functionality an properties of the services, you will understand that they should not have UI. Remember, a Windows service is the application which is supposed to execute its code even when you log out, somebody else logs in, or, after OP restart and start of the services, nobody logs in. Desktops replace one another or do not exist. How a form could come through all this?

You could have a separate process of a separate application which is executed legitimately under some user's account but communicates with your service. This is a pretty usual practice.

—SA