"RGreen" <rgreen@nospam.kemi.umu.se> skrev i en meddelelse
news:44744bec$1@newsgroups.borland.com...
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> "Frank Beerens" <Frank.Beerens@soft-solutions.nl> wrote in message
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> But how
>> can i do communication between the windows service and a GUI. I thought
>> TCP/IP.
>
> Be aware that some firewalls will by default warn and even block in some
> cases tyhe communication in LocalHost. ZoneAlarm is a pain i this case.
> Not a biog dial, but annoying if you are distributing the app. I use
> memory mapped files instead for IPC.
One very nice benefit of using TCP from a GUI application is that you can
use the exact same GUI app to configure the service from another machine on
the network.
--
Finn Tolderlund
