Newbie question: How can 1 C# program call methods on another running process

[jenius27]

Hi,

Im new to the windows .NET platform and I was wondering if someone can guide me. I have a c# program that implements an interface. Inside this program, I have a method where I get an array of processes running on the workstation and I look for a specific process. Once I find it, I want to call an interface method on the process (I know it also implements the same interface).

How do I do this? Someone suggested I use IPC but I looked online and there are lots of code samples but Im confused about how to make it work in my program.

I saw online that others have created a server class, a client class, etc,etc. But in my program's method how can I make IPC work?

Please help.

Thanks

[agugglez]

If you want to do something like a server-side and a client-side application you should give a try to Windows Communication Fundation and implement a service. You can call the server's method from the client and the other way around.

[jenius27]

If you want to do something like a server-side and a client-side application you should give a try to Windows Communication Fundation and implement a service. You can call the server's method from the client and the other way around.

Thanks for the response but Im looking for a way for 2 processes to communicate on the same workstation.

[agugglez]

you can also use Sockets. This way you'll exchange data between the processes but you wont be able to call methods from each other.