Creating a user interface for monitoring and interacting with a running windows service

Question

I need to run a bunch of pluggable processes in a windows service on my server and want to create a user interface that allows me to interact with each of the plugins in use

Answer 1

Your best bet is to use .NET remoting over an IPC channel.

While it seems complicated to setup, it is rather easy the second time around.

I suggest you play with a few samples first on exposing remotable objects from one application to another.

I have not used Message queues before, so I can't comment on that.