Hi kd,
Try searching google groups for "vb.net named pipe" - throws up quite a few
hits...
Here's a link to a good Microsoft article for VB.NET
http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;871044. The bulk of
this example uses plain old Win32 function calls so it should port to any
Microsoft programming environment with a bit of bending.
I don't know much about Foxpro - so you'd be better off asking about the VFP
side of things in VPF groups.
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Richard Moore
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"kd" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Hi Richard,
>
> Thanks for the link.
>
> On a second thought, I could may be try named pipes. However, I could not
> find help on named pipes in the visual foxpro help or in vb.net help.
> Could
> you please suggest keywords that I can use to perform search in foxpro as
> well as in vb.net?
>
> Thanks
> kd
>
> "Richard Moore" wrote:
>
>> There's an article here http://foxproadvisor.com/doc/14609 on exactly
>> this
>> topic - bad news is it looks like you have to subscribe to access it.
>>
>> Don't know much about Foxpro but named pipes are fairly easy to work with
>> and are pretty much platform independant. You create a named pipe and
>> then
>> access it like a file i.e. you can write bytes into it and read bytes out
>> of
>> it. One app would write into the pipe, the other would read out of it.
>>
>> --
>> Richard Moore
>> ---------------------------------------
>> Aquila Cybernetic Ltd
>> http://www.e-aquila.com
>> ---------------------------------------
>> "kd" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>> news:AC821378-5E94-4A47-88D9-(E-Mail Removed)...
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > Thanks for your replies.
>> >
>> > One application is developed in visual foxpro 8.0 and the other is
>> > developed
>> > in vb.net. This being the scenario, could you please suggest the easiet
>> > way
>> > to communicate between the two applications?
>> >
>> > Thanks.
>> > kd
>> >
>> > "Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]" wrote:
>> >
>> >> "kd" <(E-Mail Removed)> schrieb:
>> >> > Can anybody suggest as to what is the best way communicate between 2
>> >> > applications residing on the same machine?
>> >>
>> >> There are many different ways to do that. You can use remoting,
>> >> sockets,
>> >> other IPC mechanisms, or the 'WM_COPYDATA' message. A sample for
>> >> using
>> >> 'WM_COPYDATA' to exchange data between two applications written by Tom
>> >> Shelton [MVP] can be found here:
>> >>
>> >> <URL:http://groups.google.de/groups?selm=uWYQZLWjDHA.3312%40tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl>
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >> M S Herfried K. Wagner
>> >> M V P <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>
>> >> V B <URL:http://classicvb.org/petition/>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >
>> > "Richard Moore" wrote:
>> >
>> >> Named pipes always worked well for me.
>> >>
>> >> You can also use memory mapped files but named pipes are a lot
>> >> easier -
>> >> and
>> >> more stable in my experience.
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >> Richard Moore
>> >> ---------------------------------------
>> >> Aquila Cybernetic Ltd
>> >> http://www.e-aquila.com
>> >> ---------------------------------------
>> >> "kd" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>> >> news:0292842F-2870-47D1-AF1C-(E-Mail Removed)...
>> >> > Hi All,
>> >> >
>> >> > Can anybody suggest as to what is the best way communicate between 2
>> >> > applications residing on the same machine?
>> >> >
>> >> > Thanks.
>> >> > kd
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>>
>>
>>
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