Terminating a local process COM server

[Alan Miller]

Steve Holden (sholden at holdenweb.com) wrote:
>Hmmm. It's not as simple as I at first believed. I thought running a service
>might be a good way to go, but of course this begs the question of how to
>communicate with the service! 

There are all sorts of options for interprocess communication on 
Windows, but since you're considering using a service it seems likely 
that you're running on NT or 2000.  If that's the case, I believe named 
pipes should be a decent option.  

ajm