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UWP sending message to Windows Service using NamedPipes

I'm trying to create a UWP app for our tools, one of its functionality is to manage tfs outside visual studio using tf.exe console commands and other things, i noticed that UWP is sandboxed and only has limited access outside its deployment folder so im planning to use a windows service to be the one who will be doing all the heavy work and using NamedPipes to communicate between UWP and Windows Service, been searching a bit already but until now im still not able to establish connection between this 2 app
I'm using console as a sample and starting it from UWP using FullTrustProcessLuncher
I uploaded a sample project in github
https://github.com/vgdagpin/UWP2WindowsService
Any help would be appreciated

I don't know much about named pipes so I can't tell if that is correct. But generally, UWP apps use APP services to communicate with desktop apps because the app service is native UWP.
I'd suggest you take a look at #Stefan Wick's Blog - UWP with Desktop Extension Part 1,2,3. You could search for them in your browser. These tutorials show the way how to package desktop apps with UWP apps using Windows Application Packaging Project and how to establish communication between the UWP app and the console app using App service which should be what exactly you want. After you launched the console app from the UWP app, you could let the console app call the windows service to do what you need.

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UWP Apps are sandboxed, and can't launch external applications.
If the console app is already running, you may be able to communicate with it (by using sockets for instance). But there's no way to launch it (unless it's another UWP app). That's for security reasons, thank to this you can download any app from the store and run them safely on your computer.