Accessing objects created in windows service

Question

If I was to create a windows service, which in the background was making calls to the database and populating various objects. Is it then possible to access these objects from a standalone C# application? If so, how would I do this?

Thanks

Answer 1

Simply you can use Named Pipes to make communication between two .Net applications.

This should be place inside Service to listen on client applications request

private static void SendByteAndReceiveResponse()
 {           
     using (NamedPipeServerStream namedPipeServer = new 
      NamedPipeServerStream("test-pipe"))
     {
    namedPipeServer.WaitForConnection();
    namedPipeServer.WriteByte(1);
    int byteFromClient = namedPipeServer.ReadByte();
    Console.WriteLine(byteFromClient);
  }
}

and this will be inside Client applications

    private static void ReceiveByteAndRespond()
   {           
      using (NamedPipeClientStream namedPipeClient = new 
      NamedPipeClientStream("test-pipe"))
     {
    namedPipeClient.Connect();
    Console.WriteLine(namedPipeClient.ReadByte());
    namedPipeClient.WriteByte(2);
   }
}

Note

Please do changes in

namedPipeClient.WriteByte(2);

according to your business logic.

OR

Please read this thread

Answer 2

Accessing objects strictly speaking is not possible. You can connect your apps with (for example) named pipes as per @Taha Sultan Temuri and serialize your objects, send over and deserialize them on the other end.