Windows Form passing arguments/details to Windows Service

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Hey everyone,

 

I am hoping that this site will offer the expertise, and hopefully the assistance that other sites have been unable to give.

 

I asked the question that follows on STACKOVERFLOW (my local place for assistance) a week ago, with no luck, and today posted on the msdn dev forums which has also received no information....

 

I shall begin...

 

My Aim:

I intend to make a program, which has two (potentially more) components. The first is a Windows form, nice and clean with some options on for a user to choose. In the most basic example, a user can choose an executable and push a button. This choice is then saved 'somewhere' and passed to our second component, the windows service, which then checks if its running, and if it is, kill the process.

 

Currently I have the service working by itself, with a hardwired executable (calc.exe) and it runs smoothly, ending that ***** whenever it pops up. However my attempts to pass information from a windows form to the service have all failed.

 

I have tried various things such as:

 

string[] myArgs = new string[1] { textBox1.Text };
serviceController1.Start(myArgs);

 

or...

 

serviceController1.Pause();
serviceController1.Continue(MyArgs);

 

Neither work...

 

So I pose the question, is it possible? I thought it was, as an Antivirus/Firewall (take Nortons) has a front end GUI which passes stuff to the backend.

 

Btw this program will be installed with ADMIN Privileges.

 

Is there an alternative to what I am trying to do? Am I going about it wrong?

 

Here is the original link:

 

StackOverflow Question

 

Thanks everyone