Communicating between apps

[John]

Hi

I need to send a string from a dotnet app to an MS Access app from time to
time. As it is a light weight use I am wondering if there is a light weight
way such as using windows messaging to send this string. I would appreciate
any ideas on how to carry this out. A code example would be great.

Many Thanks

Regards

 

[a a r o n _ k e m p f]

most people keep their data in a real database.. and then you can
communicate 'through' the database

but this doesn't work with Jet because Jet isn't a real multi-user
database

 

[Tony Toews [MVP]]

I need to send a string from a dotnet app to an MS Access app from time to
time. As it is a light weight use I am wondering if there is a light weight
way such as using windows messaging to send this string. I would appreciate
any ideas on how to carry this out. A code example would be great.

I would poke about on a Visual Basic 6 site to see. Well you got me
curious so see
http://vbnet.mvps.org/index.html?code/network/mailslotbroadcast.htm

That page talks about mailslots and such however it only mentions how
to write the messages. But maybe that's enough that some searching
will find you more answers.

Please ignore Aaron Kempf's posting as Aaron's answer to just about
every question is SQL Server and ADPs. No matter how appropriate his
response.

Tony
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