Communicating with a running process

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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,


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?
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You could include an EXE as the first step of the batch to send the command
:)
 
Hi,




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