Getting values from Windows Services to normal Windows application

[rawe]

Hi everybody

I've made a Windows Service that has a lot of configurable settings.
And I've made a normal Windows application (a WinForm executable) to start, stop, pause etc. the specific Windows Service.

My problem is that I would like my Windows application to be able to retrieve the Windows Service's configuration settings - and some of these change during run-time. So I'm not sure to use the registry or a flat text file to transfer the settings. Mostly because I'm not sure that such a solution would perform or scale very well...

Are there anyone out there with some experience in transfering large amounts of data from a Windows Service to a normal Windows application?

Best

Rasmus Wehner
Mimia, Denmark