title: Sending Data Between Windows Service and Web Application
body: <p>just a quick question hopefully someone can point me in the right direction. In our .net web application we are trying to implement a third party device that pairs with the user computer. In order to generate this pair in our project we need to be able to either pull the current users computer name, or ip address. In a winforms application this would be easier since it resides on the users network. Since this is a web application, it has been quite hard as the only thing being returned is the ip address of the server or the name of the server. So what we are thinking of doing now is having either a Windows Service, or WinForms application, that our customers can download that will return this information to our application.</p>
  
  <p>Creating the Windows Service or WInForms application is straight forward and I understand that, my question is how would I get my Windows Service or WinForms application to send data to the web application? I have looked into WCF but it seems the end user would have to set up some tcp settings on their end which could be difficult for some and I would like to avoid. If anyone has any suggestions other than WCF I'm open to that as well.</p>
  
  <p>Any suggestions for how this situation should be handled appreciated, thanks. </p>