communicate between two exe applications

31 Jul 2006 9:40 AM

Napo

Hi,
   There are are two app,named App1 and App2.
   When run App1, it will run App2 automatically.
   On the other hand, when terminate App1, App2 will aslo be terminated.
   I think App1 and App2 in a different domain, how to communicate them?
   I don't want to use process.kill() method to find and kill app2 process
when App1 terminated.
does "delegate" can do it?

31 Jul 2006 10:46 AM

Marcin Hoppe

Napo wrote:

> Hi,
>    There are are two app,named App1 and App2.
>    When run App1, it will run App2 automatically.
>    On the other hand, when terminate App1, App2 will aslo be terminated.
>    I think App1 and App2 in a different domain, how to communicate them?
>    I don't want to use process.kill() method to find and kill app2 process
> when App1 terminated.
>   does "delegate" can do it?

Use .NET Remoting for this. App2 should expose a remote object with
Close() method that App1 could use to tell App2 to shut down. You could
also use sockets, named pipes (no explicit support in .NET here) or just
plain files to ensure communication between two applications.

Best regards!
Marcin

2 Aug 2006 10:49 AM

Josip Habjan

Hi Napo,

If your work in vs2005 (framework 2.0.) you can use IPC channel (do google
search on that topic) and other stuff i mentioned below for fr. 1.1..
If you are working in vs2003 (framework 1.1.) you have few other ways:
    1. Like Marcin told you - .NET Remoting
    2. TCP/IP protocol (sockets)
    3. API - CreateEvent, SetEvent ... ( named event )
    4. API - CreateNamedPipe ....

Other solution is to use some 3rd library that allows communication between
different processes.... like my:
http://www.habjansoftware.com/ipc_library.aspx
.... it supports IPC, Shared Memory and Shared Events (all writen in
vb.net)...

Regards,
Josip Habjan

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url: http://http://www.habjansoftware.com/

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"Napo" <N***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>   There are are two app,named App1 and App2.
>   When run App1, it will run App2 automatically.
>   On the other hand, when terminate App1, App2 will aslo be terminated.
>   I think App1 and App2 in a different domain, how to communicate them?
>   I don't want to use process.kill() method to find and kill app2 process
> when App1 terminated.
> does "delegate" can do it?