title: How to communicate with a windows service from an application that interacts with the desktop?
body: <p>With .Net what is the best way to interact with a service (i.e. how do most tray-apps communicate with their servers).  It would be preferred if this method would be cross-platform as well (working in Mono, so I guess remoting is out?)</p>
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  <h3>Edit:</h3>
  <p>Forgot to mention, we still have to support Windows 2000 machines in the field, so WCF and anything above .Net 2.0 won't fly.</p>