information on creating a exe that can be accessed from another ap

[Guest]

Hi All;
i'm trying to create a two piece program. the main app would contain all the
gui and the second piece would work as a data server. the data server would
be started at the same time the main app would start because it would have to
load all the stored data into memory at the outset. i then would like to
access the methods of the server/daemon to get the data as i need it. any
ideas? how can i access an console EXEs functionality from another app? can
anyone point me to any articles or tutorials/

Thanks for any help.

 

[Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]]

Shawn,

You can use remoting, but I question the reason for doing it in this
situation. If you only need this process running while your process is
running, then why separate it out into another process at all? If it was a
constant need, then you should be creating a service.

In either case, I would use remoting, or host your components in COM+ to
achieve this kind of functionality.

Hope this helps.