make my windows service appears in taskbar

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Hi,

  For showing Tray Icon, windows message loop is required which is not in windows service.So to achieve this create a separate thread  which will call this windows forms and and run this windows forms on it for showing the notify Icon.


public class WindowsMessageLoopThread
{
private Thread _thread = null;
private AutoResetEvent _startedEvent = new AutoResetEvent(false);
private Form1 _form = null;

public WindowsMessageLoopThread()
{
_thread = new Thread(new ThreadStart(ThreadFunction));
_thread.Start();
_startedEvent.WaitOne();
}

public void Stop()
{
_form.BeginInvoke(new MethodInvoker(_form.Close));
_thread.Join();
}

private void ThreadFunction()
{
_startedEvent.Set();
_form = new Form1();
System.Windows.Forms.Application.Run(_form);
}
}

Finally in change the Installer Account Type to LocalSystem.

 RightClick MyComputer-->Manage-->Services And Application-->Services--> Select your service (which is displayed in right hand side)--->Right Click on the service--->Properties--->LogOn(TabItem)---> Check Allow Service to interact  with desktop

Regards,
raaj