How to make GUI wait for windows service?

Question

I wrote a windows service and a gui for it. Of course gui mainly depends on the service. Is there a way for gui to wait for the service? Sometimes I need to reload service c

Answer 1

I'd probably spawn a seperate thead to simply poll and see when your service controller status has changed, when the change occurs kill this thread. Then simply re spawn the thread when you need to start re-poll

Darknight