Send and receive messages to and from applications

[Gerald Bader]

Hi all!

Is there a possibility to send messages from one application to another,
never minding if it is a .NET or a COM application?
The other application should "listen" whether there are Messages being sent
to it, and if so, respond itself with a message to the sender application.

Thanx for your hints.


Greetings

Gerald

 

[Ken Tucker [MVP]]

Hi,

Take a look at remoting.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dndotnet/html/introremoting.asp

Ken
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Hi all!

Is there a possibility to send messages from one application to another,
never minding if it is a .NET or a COM application?
The other application should "listen" whether there are Messages being sent
to it, and if so, respond itself with a message to the sender application.

Thanx for your hints.


Greetings

Gerald

 

[Gerald Bader]

Hello!

This assumes that the applications both are written in .NET

I need something that is independent of .NET - i.e. something that Windows
is offering (Message-Queues?).


Gerald

 

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

Is there a possibility to send messages from one application
to another, never minding if it is a .NET or a COM application?

Maybe you can set up communication using sockets, or (I have never worked
with it) MSMQ.

 

[Cor Ligthert]

Gerald,

There are more articles on MSDN

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dndotnet/html/interactmessaque.asp

I hope this helps?

Cor

"Gerald Bader" <[email protected]>

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[Bob Hollness]

In the past I used a TCP socket and just had my apps listening on the
specified port. then it becomes easy to get the apps talking.

Bob

 

[Gerald Bader]

Hi!

Do you know where to get any sample code for TCP communication between
applications?
Or maybe some for UDP?


Gerald

 

[Richard L Rosenheim]

It's the same as if you communicating with a separate machine. Program A
would need to listen on a given port on 127.0.0.1. Program B would then
just connect to that port on 127.0.0.1.

In case you don't know it, 127.0.0.1 is a reserved IP Address which
represents the local computer.

Richard Rosenheim

 

[Brian Schwartz]

What kind of messages? The other posts sound good if you are sending data
that is particular to your application. But just wanted to add--if by
"messages" you mean standard Window messages, then the SendMessage API might
do the trick for you a little more easily.

Just in case.

Brian


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