Show a message box from a Windows Service

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Published on 2010-05-07T06:22:07Z Indexed on 2010/05/07 6:28 UTC
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Can you display a message box (or any form of notification) from a windows service? Can't get it to work. I used:

            global::System.Windows.Forms.MessageBox.Show("A fatal error occurred. " +
                ServiceName + " is now terminating.");

but it didn't work and just produced an error.

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