windows-services

With .Net what is the best way to interact with a service (i.e. how do most tray-apps communicate with their servers). It would be preferred if this method would be cross-platform as well (working in Mono, so I guess remoting is out?) Edit: Forgot to mention, we still have to support Windows 2000 machines in the field, so WCF and anything above .Net 2.0 won't fly. Be aware that if you are planning to eventually deploy on Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008, many ways that this can be done today will not work. This is because of the introduction of a new security feature called "Session 0

I am using a windows service and i want to print a .html page when the service will start. I am using this code and it's printing well. But a print dialog box come, how do i print without the print dialog box? public void printdoc(string document) { Process printjob = new Process(); printjob.StartInfo.FileName = document; printjob.StartInfo.UseShellExecute = true; printjob.StartInfo.Verb = "print"; printjob.StartInfo.CreateNoWindow = true; printjob.StartInfo.WindowStyle = ProcessWindowStyle.Hidden; printjob.Start(); } Have there any other way to print this without showing the print dialog box.

I'm trying to figure out a way to log off users in local Windows sessions from a Windows Service written in C#. Here's the background to the problem: I need to manage the computer usage time of a set of users; when their allotted time expires I want to log them off. This is in the context of a W2K8 domain. Unfortunately the login time controls in Windows simply disconnect the user from server resources; there is no way to force their sessions to terminate via this method. My approach is to build a Windows Service that I will deploy across the domain; the service will run on every client