C# windows service gui

I can see the GUI of windows app running through service. Posted Aug am Member Arti Vengurlecar Jun am. Hi Member , I want to the similar windows service. I am new to it, could you please explain from the code point of view as to how you have done the windows service? This will help me a lot.

Thanks in advance. You can not use an interface for the service. They are just the DLL files running in the background, and performing some task.. Posted Aug am Harmanjeet Singh. Add your solution here. OK Paste as. Treat my content as plain text, not as HTML. Existing Members Sign in to your account. This email is in use. Do you need your password? Submit your solution! In the Configure your new project window, type or enter HelloWorld in the Project name box. Then, choose Create. On the Create a new project window, select the Windows Forms App.

Next, select C from the Language list, and then select Windows from the Platform list. Next, in the Visual Studio Installer, select the. After that, select the Modify button in the Visual Studio Installer. Next, select Continue to install the workload.

Then, select Create. After you select your C project template and name your file, Visual Studio opens a form for you. A form is a Windows user interface. We'll create a "Hello World" application by adding controls to the form, and then we'll run the app. If you don't see the Toolbox fly-out option, you can open it from the menu bar. In the Properties window, locate Text , change the name from button1 to Click this , and then press Enter. If you don't see the Properties window, you can open it from the menu bar.

Or, press F4. In the Design section of the Properties window, change the name from button1 to btnClickThis , and then press Enter. If you've alphabetized the list in the Properties window, button1 appears in the DataBindings section, instead. Now that we've added a button control to create an action, let's add a label control to send text to.

Select the Label control from the Toolbox window, and then drag it onto the form and drop it beneath the Click this button. In either the Design section or the DataBindings section of the Properties window, change the name of label1 to lblHelloWorld , and then press Enter. In the Form1. Now I have a requirement like to show a pop up which says the mail has sent or something like that. But I need some idea to implement that logic. SO I thought of creating another windows application to show the pop up message and call this from the windows service when the mail has sent.

This is only the idea and not sure is this correct approach. Please guide me. There is no restriction that windows service should not have any GUI. Windows services can have GUI. But if it has, it was shown up in Service 0. It was possible in earlier versions of Windows before Vista. Lets have a detailed discussion on it. A logon session is created whenever a user logs in to Windows. Each session has a Session ID. All the windows services will run in Session 0.

In Session 0, a user can see and interact with the graphical elements of any program running there, including those created by Windows Services in earlier versions like Windows NT, , XP and Server Later due to security concerns, Microsoft isolated the Session 0. And the impact is services cannot show their GUI. This is one of the case. Consider, A service attempts to create a user interface UI , such as a dialog box, in Session 0. Because the user is not running in Session 0 due to the isolation of service 0, he or she never sees the UI and therefore cannot provide the input that the service is looking for.

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