Network Pipes

[Lou]

How do i connect to a named pipe as a client?
-Lou

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

Lou,

You can call the CreateFile API through the P/Invoke layer. Once you
have the handle to the pipe, you can pass it to the constructor of the
FileStream class to read from/write to it.

Hope this helps.
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- Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]
- mv*@spam.guard.caspershouse.com

"Lou" <lo********@comcast.net> wrote in message
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How do i connect to a named pipe as a client?
-Lou

[Lou]

What is the P/Invoke layer?
using ?????

"Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]" <mv*@spam.guard.caspershouse.com> wrote in
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Lou,

You can call the CreateFile API through the P/Invoke layer. Once you
have the handle to the pipe, you can pass it to the constructor of the
FileStream class to read from/write to it.

Hope this helps.
--
- Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]
- mv*@spam.guard.caspershouse.com

"Lou" <lo********@comcast.net> wrote in message
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How do i connect to a named pipe as a client?
-Lou

[Lou]

Here is my code snippet

using System;

using System.Runtime.InteropServices;

using System.IO;

using Microsoft.Win32;
public int ConnectToPipe(string machineName,string pipeName)

{

string connectionString;

int res;

connectionString="\\\\" + machineName +"\\" + pipeName;
res = WaitNamedPipe(connectionString, 5000);
}'

"Lou" <lo********@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:uV**************@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...

What is the P/Invoke layer?
using ?????

"Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]" <mv*@spam.guard.caspershouse.com> wrote in message news:%2***************@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...

Lou,

You can call the CreateFile API through the P/Invoke layer. Once you have the handle to the pipe, you can pass it to the constructor of the
FileStream class to read from/write to it.

Hope this helps.
--
- Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]
- mv*@spam.guard.caspershouse.com

"Lou" <lo********@comcast.net> wrote in message
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How do i connect to a named pipe as a client?
-Lou

[Lou]

CreateFile returns a int
The FileSystemObjectcs contructor won't take an int???

I can get a handle using CreateFile but the fileSystemObject chokes on it???
"Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]" <mv*@spam.guard.caspershouse.com> wrote in
message news:%2***************@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...

Lou,

You can call the CreateFile API through the P/Invoke layer. Once you
have the handle to the pipe, you can pass it to the constructor of the
FileStream class to read from/write to it.

Hope this helps.
--
- Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]
- mv*@spam.guard.caspershouse.com

"Lou" <lo********@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:OW**************@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...

How do i connect to a named pipe as a client?
-Lou

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

Lou,

Your definition of CreateFile should return an IntPtr, not an int. You
use IntPtr for things such as pointers, handles, etc, etc, where the size of
the integer is dependent on the platform.

--
- Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]
- mv*@spam.guard.caspershouse.com

"Lou" <lo********@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:eI**************@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...

CreateFile returns a int
The FileSystemObjectcs contructor won't take an int???

I can get a handle using CreateFile but the fileSystemObject chokes on it???

"Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]" <mv*@spam.guard.caspershouse.com> wrote in message news:%2***************@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...

Lou,

You can call the CreateFile API through the P/Invoke layer. Once you have the handle to the pipe, you can pass it to the constructor of the
FileStream class to read from/write to it.

Hope this helps.
--
- Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]
- mv*@spam.guard.caspershouse.com

"Lou" <lo********@comcast.net> wrote in message
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How do i connect to a named pipe as a client?
-Lou