Inter-process communications (events)

[Stelrad Doulton]

Hi,

I am after pointers towards the best strategy for raising events in one
application as a result of a condition in another application, there will be
about 10 event types and they will have to fire in both directions. The
purpose of this is to provide a class for managing another application so
one half of this process is taking place within a dll.

I started by looking at creating MessageWindow within the dll but found that
there was no reliable way to get a handle to it from another application. I
may be wrong on this but I found that I could not set the Window Caption,
therefore I could only supply the class name to FindWindow which is
dangerous as there could be other MessageWindows about.

I have also looked at I have looked at Alex Yakhin's MemoryMapping code but
I don't think its really what I was after.

Thanks

 

[Daniel Moth]

Not sure about your use case scenario but your CE CF options for IPC are
summarised here:
http://www.danielmoth.com/Blog/2004/09/ipc-with-cf-on-ce-part-1.html

My favourite has always been number 7 but obviously you should choose one
based on your specific requirements

Cheers
Daniel

 

[Stelrad Doulton]

Thanks Daniel,

An excellent blog entry and one that certainly deserves a google first page
rating!