pop-up in c#

[john_zakaria]

hi guys thanks everyone for help in my last post now i made my windows service that get response from a web service and everything is working well.

all that i need now is:
1- The windows service should pop-up something saying there is a new application to be downloaded in case the webservice replied by val=1 and link for an exe file.
these file can be downloaded in the pc so the user can install it .
N.B: Like windows update link and pop-up that is shown in the taskbar that telling us that there is a new update and you can download it from this link
so that
The user should click on the pop-up and click on the link on the pop-up, to download the new application, like he downloaded the windows service before.


can anyone tell me the idea about doing this task??

 

[JohnH]

This is still a VB.Net forum. Not a C# forum.

Windows services shouldn't popup anything, they belong in a UI-less environment.
To display something to user write a Windows Forms application, it can communicate with the service using various methods of IPC.

 

[john_zakaria]

This is still a VB.Net forum. Not a C# forum.

Windows services shouldn't popup anything, they belong in a UI-less environment.
To display something to user write a Windows Forms application, it can communicate with the service using various methods of IPC.

Sorry for putting my post in VB forum.. i posted it because may be c# have the same idea

u told me that Windows services shouldn't popup anything, so how i can let the user know that there is new update in windows service so he can download it.

 

[JohnH]

To display something to user write a Windows Forms application, it can communicate with the service using various methods of IPC.

The service can also communicate with the forms app. IPC mean 'inter-process communication' and can be anything, traditionally sockets or pipes is much used. .Net has tools for this in System.Net.Sockets namespace and System.IO.Pipes namespace.

i posted it because may be c# have the same idea

That doesn't make sense to me.