> i planning to build a Windows Service which is gone do some automatic
> functions. Those automatic functions can be configured from a gui. But how
> can i do communication between the windows service and a GUI. I thought
> TCP/IP. Is there some protocol available to do this.
One easy solution is to add the ICS HTTP server component into your service
and use a browser as configuration tool. Of course, use a non standard port
instead of default 80. You can also use the HTTPS component if you want SSL
communication (useful for remote administration thru the internet).
You can download ICS (freeware) full source code from
http://www.overbyte.be.
To start, have a look at the WebServ sample program.
Contribute to the SSL Effort. Visit http://www.overbyte.be/eng/ssl.html
