Communicating with a running process

[kirk]

Can someone tell me the cleanest way to achieve this -->

I have a running C# tray application. It has a tray menu to let the
user turn on and off things, like monitoring the CPU usage for
example.

Now lets say I have maybe a batch/jscript somewhere and it wants to do
some work and then send a command off to my tray app to tell it "turn
on monitoring", how would I do this? If I were using another EXE(not
a batch/jscript) outside of the tray app, I guess I could used named
pipes, to be clean, any other ideas when not using an EXE?
Thanks.

[Ignacio Machin \( .NET/ C# MVP \)]

Hi,
"kirk" <ki****@gmail.comwrote in message
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Now lets say I have maybe a batch/jscript somewhere and it wants to do
some work and then send a command off to my tray app to tell it "turn
on monitoring", how would I do this? If I were using another EXE(not
a batch/jscript) outside of the tray app, I guess I could used named
pipes, to be clean, any other ideas when not using an EXE?

You could include an EXE as the first step of the batch to send the command
:)

[kirk]

On Apr 18, 2:43 pm, "Ignacio Machin \( .NET/ C# MVP \)" <machin TA
laceupsolutions.comwrote:

Hi,

"kirk" <[e-mail] in message

news:11**********************@y80g2000hsf.googlegr oups.com...

Now lets say I have maybe a batch/jscript somewhere and it wants to do
some work and then send a command off to my tray app to tell it "turn
on monitoring", how would I do this? If I were using another EXE(not
a batch/jscript) outside of the tray app, I guess I could used named
pipes, to be clean, any other ideas when not using an EXE?

You could include an EXE as the first step of the batch to send the command
:)

Thanks Ignacio. Thats what I had in mind, just not the "extra" EXE
part.

I think I have a clever idea; I will use named pipes, allow the same
EXE that starts up the tray app to run a second instance if called
again, but only to do named pipes communication with the first
instance, then force the second instance to terminate. I think this
will work?