Desktop Alert from Windows Service

[Joel]

I am creating a Windows Service that needs to show status alerts to the user.  So, I'll put an icon in the system tray and post alerts when events happen.  Do you have a working example as to how this can be done?

Thanks for your help,

Joel

[Martin Ivanov]

Hello Joel,

We don't have an example that shows how to set up a Windows Service and show the alert in this case, however, this shouldn't be any different than showing the alert in a basic scenario. To achieve your requirement, you can create a new WPF application and set up your service, and the RadDesktopAlert control there. Then you can subscribe to an event of the service which fires when the status changes and after this display the alert in the event handler. For example:

private RadDesktopAlertManager manager = new RadDesktopAlertManager(); 

public void OnServiceStatusChanged(string newStatusMessage)
{
	var alert = new RadDesktopAlert(); 
	alert.Header = "STATUS NOTIFICATION"; 
	alert.Content = newStatusMessage; 
	alert.ShowDuration = 3000; 
	
	manager.ShowAlert(alert); 
}

Regards,
Martin Ivanov
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