Re: Make a Windows Service start a windows program.

The OP's question relates to a "windows" program, not a console style
program. Note that the same remark about the user profile applies when
starting a console application, an application that considers it's profile
being loaded when started will fail if started from a service.
In general, services should not start other applications, unless you have
full control of it's UI and profile context.

What do you mean when you say:

"unless you have full control of it's UI and profile context"?

I have a similar situation where a service needs to instantiate an object contained in a WinForms app. The service and the app are installed as a pair; the UI is used to define the action taken by the service at pre-defined intervals.

When constructing the assembly in Visual Studio that contains the application/service pair, should the service and the app be in a separate namespaces? Does it make any difference? The design goal is to keep the service and the app a loosely coupled as possible since they run in different security contexts.

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