>Is it at all possible to use web services or COM to communicate with a .NET _form_? I cannot seem to find any references to that.
You can't do this directly because you cannot create a COM EXE with .Net. What you can do is create a COM DLL add forms to it and talk to the forms through it (although you will not get a message loop so this won't be for interactive use I think - haven't tried this). Alternately you can use a proxy DotNet DLL to communicate with a .NET Exe file.
There's an example of this here:
http://www.buygold.net/v07n04/v07n04.htmlA bit of work all of this... Direct support for creation EXE based servers surely would be nicer.
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