Communicate between many C# applications

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Hi,

I need to communicate between many C# applications.

is tcp socket is the best way to do this? Only the main application
that send the initial request can be a remote application in a local
network

Ex:

the main application need to send a request (the same) to applications
A, B and C

Applications A,B and C need also to communicate with 3 other
applications (D, E and F) to accomplish the request

When application D, E and F finally execute te request they return
the result of the request to application A , B and C and then return
the result to the main application.


This is not a usual thing to do I know....


I try to do this based on the following simple C# socket example :
http://www.csharphelp.com/archives/archive127.html

I suppose a need to use a different port for each communication...but
in this case i will need to listen 6 port...this make no sense.

I try to find something else for the communication between
applications A,B, C and D,E,F since applications are running on the
same machine.

Any ideas ???

Thanks,

Mike
 
is tcp socket is the best way to do this?  Only the main application
that send the initial request can be a remote application in a local
network
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I'm not quite sure what you mean by "Only the main application..."?

The product I work on has two exe's which communicate back and forth
with each other via remoting. Remoting seems like the easiest
solution rather than managing the sockets yourself.
 
I'm not quite sure what you mean by "Only the main application..."?
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I mean the user see only ONE application, the main application. All
other applications are hidden windows/process.


Thanks Mr. Arnorld, this is exactly what I need :) .NET WCF cannot be
an option since other application can use different .Net framework
version.

Thanks again!
 
Is it possible to send/receive something like binary data, gif image
and other thing with System.Net.Sockets; ??

What should I use to transfer non text data from one machine to
another ?
 
Is it possible to send/receive something like binary data, gif image
and other thing with System.Net.Sockets; ??

What should I use to transfer non text data from one machine to
another ?
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..Net Remoting using a binary formatter or with MSMQ doing the same. You
should think of *objects* being sent. Objects can contain data, be binary
objects and serialized objects can be sent and desterilized -- think object
oriented programming.
 
.Net Remoting using a binary formatter or with MSMQ doing the same. You
should think of *objects* being sent. Objects can contain data, be binary
objects and serialized objects can be sent and desterilized -- think object
oriented programming.
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You are so right... I will keep in mind your last advise ;o)

Ok so at least I know that I'm on the right direction, I have to go
back learning Net remoting and MSMQ...

thanks again for your time and great advises.
 
MSMQ need to be installed on the targeted machine....Net remoting
seems to be a better option.

The main application (client) communicate with 3 other applications
A,B,C (server)

Questions :
- Is it possible to send requests to the 3 other application without
using a different ports? Is there a way to distinguish A,B and C
server without hhaving to listen different port?
 

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