Can someone tell me the cleanest way to achieve this -->

I have a running C# tray application. It has a tray menu to let the
user turn on and off things, like monitoring the CPU usage for
example.

Now lets say I have maybe a batch/jscript somewhere and it wants to do
some work and then send a command off to my tray app to tell it "turn
on monitoring", how would I do this? If I were using another EXE(not
a batch/jscript) outside of the tray app, I guess I could used named
pipes, to be clean, any other ideas when not using an EXE?


Thanks.

Hi,


"kirk" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Now lets say I have maybe a batch/jscript somewhere and it wants to do
> some work and then send a command off to my tray app to tell it "turn
> on monitoring", how would I do this? If I were using another EXE(not
> a batch/jscript) outside of the tray app, I guess I could used named
> pipes, to be clean, any other ideas when not using an EXE?

You could include an EXE as the first step of the batch to send the command

On Apr 18, 2:43 pm, "Ignacio Machin \( .NET/ C# MVP \)" <machin TA
laceupsolutions.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> "kirk" <kir...@gmail.com> wrote in message
>
> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>
> > Now lets say I have maybe a batch/jscript somewhere and it wants to do
> > some work and then send a command off to my tray app to tell it "turn
> > on monitoring", how would I do this? If I were using another EXE(not
> > a batch/jscript) outside of the tray app, I guess I could used named
> > pipes, to be clean, any other ideas when not using an EXE?
>
> You could include an EXE as the first step of the batch to send the command
>

Thanks Ignacio. Thats what I had in mind, just not the "extra" EXE
part.

I think I have a clever idea; I will use named pipes, allow the same
EXE that starts up the tray app to run a second instance if called
again, but only to do named pipes communication with the first
instance, then force the second instance to terminate. I think this
will work?