How can other apps talk to my .Net app?

[Terry H]

My clients want me to provide some kind of hooks or entry points into my
vb.net winform app, so that they can call it from their apps, passing in
some parameters to launch some particular function.

At first I was thinking along the lines of optional command line
parameters - any other app could simply call shell execute with myapp.exe
followed by param1, param2 etc arguments. I would check for these parameters
at start up, and act on them if they were there.

However, they want to be able to have my app already open, and then from
their app switch to mine.

What options do I have for exposing functions or hooks into my app from
other, non .Net apps?

Any ideas?

Thanks,

H

[Divesh]

Use .Net remoting

There are various ways your application can listen to a request like tcp or http. You can write a separate component that the other applications can use. This component can implement all .Net remoting stuff

Guess there are obvious things you will have to consider like multi-threaded stuff

Divesh