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kd
Hi All,

Can anybody suggest as to what is the best way communicate between 2
applications residing on the same machine?

Thanks.
kd
Nov 21 '05 #1
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"kd" <kd@discussions .microsoft.com> schrieb:
Can anybody suggest as to what is the best way communicate between 2
applications residing on the same machine?


There are many different ways to do that. You can use remoting, sockets,
other IPC mechanisms, or the 'WM_COPYDATA' message. A sample for using
'WM_COPYDATA' to exchange data between two applications written by Tom
Shelton [MVP] can be found here:

<URL:http://groups.google.d e/groups?selm=uWY QZLWjDHA.3312%4 0tk2msftngp13.p hx.gbl>

--
M S Herfried K. Wagner
M V P <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>
V B <URL:http://classicvb.org/petition/>

Nov 21 '05 #2
"kd" <kd@discussions .microsoft.com> schrieb:
Can anybody suggest as to what is the best way communicate between 2
applications residing on the same machine?


There are many different ways to do that. You can use remoting, sockets,
other IPC mechanisms, or the 'WM_COPYDATA' message. A sample for using
'WM_COPYDATA' to exchange data between two applications written by Tom
Shelton [MVP] can be found here:

<URL:http://groups.google.d e/groups?selm=uWY QZLWjDHA.3312%4 0tk2msftngp13.p hx.gbl>

--
M S Herfried K. Wagner
M V P <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>
V B <URL:http://classicvb.org/petition/>

Nov 21 '05 #3
Named pipes always worked well for me.

You can also use memory mapped files but named pipes are a lot easier - and
more stable in my experience.

--
Richard Moore
---------------------------------------
Aquila Cybernetic Ltd
http://www.e-aquila.com
---------------------------------------
"kd" <kd@discussions .microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:02******** *************** ***********@mic rosoft.com...
Hi All,

Can anybody suggest as to what is the best way communicate between 2
applications residing on the same machine?

Thanks.
kd

Nov 21 '05 #4
Named pipes always worked well for me.

You can also use memory mapped files but named pipes are a lot easier - and
more stable in my experience.

--
Richard Moore
---------------------------------------
Aquila Cybernetic Ltd
http://www.e-aquila.com
---------------------------------------
"kd" <kd@discussions .microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:02******** *************** ***********@mic rosoft.com...
Hi All,

Can anybody suggest as to what is the best way communicate between 2
applications residing on the same machine?

Thanks.
kd

Nov 21 '05 #5
kd
Hi,

Thanks for your replies.

One application is developed in visual foxpro 8.0 and the other is developed
in vb.net. This being the scenario, could you please suggest the easiet way
to communicate between the two applications?

Thanks.
kd

"Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]" wrote:
"kd" <kd@discussions .microsoft.com> schrieb:
Can anybody suggest as to what is the best way communicate between 2
applications residing on the same machine?
There are many different ways to do that. You can use remoting, sockets,
other IPC mechanisms, or the 'WM_COPYDATA' message. A sample for using
'WM_COPYDATA' to exchange data between two applications written by Tom
Shelton [MVP] can be found here:

<URL:http://groups.google.d e/groups?selm=uWY QZLWjDHA.3312%4 0tk2msftngp13.p hx.gbl>

--
M S Herfried K. Wagner
M V P <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>
V B <URL:http://classicvb.org/petition/>


"Richard Moore" wrote:
Named pipes always worked well for me.

You can also use memory mapped files but named pipes are a lot easier - and
more stable in my experience.

--
Richard Moore
---------------------------------------
Aquila Cybernetic Ltd
http://www.e-aquila.com
---------------------------------------
"kd" <kd@discussions .microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:02******** *************** ***********@mic rosoft.com...
Hi All,

Can anybody suggest as to what is the best way communicate between 2
applications residing on the same machine?

Thanks.
kd


Nov 21 '05 #6
kd
Hi,

Thanks for your replies.

One application is developed in visual foxpro 8.0 and the other is developed
in vb.net. This being the scenario, could you please suggest the easiet way
to communicate between the two applications?

Thanks.
kd

"Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]" wrote:
"kd" <kd@discussions .microsoft.com> schrieb:
Can anybody suggest as to what is the best way communicate between 2
applications residing on the same machine?
There are many different ways to do that. You can use remoting, sockets,
other IPC mechanisms, or the 'WM_COPYDATA' message. A sample for using
'WM_COPYDATA' to exchange data between two applications written by Tom
Shelton [MVP] can be found here:

<URL:http://groups.google.d e/groups?selm=uWY QZLWjDHA.3312%4 0tk2msftngp13.p hx.gbl>

--
M S Herfried K. Wagner
M V P <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>
V B <URL:http://classicvb.org/petition/>


"Richard Moore" wrote:
Named pipes always worked well for me.

You can also use memory mapped files but named pipes are a lot easier - and
more stable in my experience.

--
Richard Moore
---------------------------------------
Aquila Cybernetic Ltd
http://www.e-aquila.com
---------------------------------------
"kd" <kd@discussions .microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:02******** *************** ***********@mic rosoft.com...
Hi All,

Can anybody suggest as to what is the best way communicate between 2
applications residing on the same machine?

Thanks.
kd


Nov 21 '05 #7
There's an article here http://foxproadvisor.com/doc/14609 on exactly this
topic - bad news is it looks like you have to subscribe to access it.

Don't know much about Foxpro but named pipes are fairly easy to work with
and are pretty much platform independant. You create a named pipe and then
access it like a file i.e. you can write bytes into it and read bytes out of
it. One app would write into the pipe, the other would read out of it.

--
Richard Moore
---------------------------------------
Aquila Cybernetic Ltd
http://www.e-aquila.com
---------------------------------------
"kd" <kd@discussions .microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:AC******** *************** ***********@mic rosoft.com...
Hi,

Thanks for your replies.

One application is developed in visual foxpro 8.0 and the other is
developed
in vb.net. This being the scenario, could you please suggest the easiet
way
to communicate between the two applications?

Thanks.
kd

"Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]" wrote:
"kd" <kd@discussions .microsoft.com> schrieb:
> Can anybody suggest as to what is the best way communicate between 2
> applications residing on the same machine?


There are many different ways to do that. You can use remoting, sockets,
other IPC mechanisms, or the 'WM_COPYDATA' message. A sample for using
'WM_COPYDATA' to exchange data between two applications written by Tom
Shelton [MVP] can be found here:

<URL:http://groups.google.d e/groups?selm=uWY QZLWjDHA.3312%4 0tk2msftngp13.p hx.gbl>

--
M S Herfried K. Wagner
M V P <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>
V B <URL:http://classicvb.org/petition/>


"Richard Moore" wrote:
Named pipes always worked well for me.

You can also use memory mapped files but named pipes are a lot easier -
and
more stable in my experience.

--
Richard Moore
---------------------------------------
Aquila Cybernetic Ltd
http://www.e-aquila.com
---------------------------------------
"kd" <kd@discussions .microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:02******** *************** ***********@mic rosoft.com...
> Hi All,
>
> Can anybody suggest as to what is the best way communicate between 2
> applications residing on the same machine?
>
> Thanks.
> kd


Nov 21 '05 #8
There's an article here http://foxproadvisor.com/doc/14609 on exactly this
topic - bad news is it looks like you have to subscribe to access it.

Don't know much about Foxpro but named pipes are fairly easy to work with
and are pretty much platform independant. You create a named pipe and then
access it like a file i.e. you can write bytes into it and read bytes out of
it. One app would write into the pipe, the other would read out of it.

--
Richard Moore
---------------------------------------
Aquila Cybernetic Ltd
http://www.e-aquila.com
---------------------------------------
"kd" <kd@discussions .microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:AC******** *************** ***********@mic rosoft.com...
Hi,

Thanks for your replies.

One application is developed in visual foxpro 8.0 and the other is
developed
in vb.net. This being the scenario, could you please suggest the easiet
way
to communicate between the two applications?

Thanks.
kd

"Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]" wrote:
"kd" <kd@discussions .microsoft.com> schrieb:
> Can anybody suggest as to what is the best way communicate between 2
> applications residing on the same machine?


There are many different ways to do that. You can use remoting, sockets,
other IPC mechanisms, or the 'WM_COPYDATA' message. A sample for using
'WM_COPYDATA' to exchange data between two applications written by Tom
Shelton [MVP] can be found here:

<URL:http://groups.google.d e/groups?selm=uWY QZLWjDHA.3312%4 0tk2msftngp13.p hx.gbl>

--
M S Herfried K. Wagner
M V P <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>
V B <URL:http://classicvb.org/petition/>


"Richard Moore" wrote:
Named pipes always worked well for me.

You can also use memory mapped files but named pipes are a lot easier -
and
more stable in my experience.

--
Richard Moore
---------------------------------------
Aquila Cybernetic Ltd
http://www.e-aquila.com
---------------------------------------
"kd" <kd@discussions .microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:02******** *************** ***********@mic rosoft.com...
> Hi All,
>
> Can anybody suggest as to what is the best way communicate between 2
> applications residing on the same machine?
>
> Thanks.
> kd


Nov 21 '05 #9
kd
Hi Richard,

Thanks for the link.

On a second thought, I could may be try named pipes. However, I could not
find help on named pipes in the visual foxpro help or in vb.net help. Could
you please suggest keywords that I can use to perform search in foxpro as
well as in vb.net?

Thanks
kd

"Richard Moore" wrote:
There's an article here http://foxproadvisor.com/doc/14609 on exactly this
topic - bad news is it looks like you have to subscribe to access it.

Don't know much about Foxpro but named pipes are fairly easy to work with
and are pretty much platform independant. You create a named pipe and then
access it like a file i.e. you can write bytes into it and read bytes out of
it. One app would write into the pipe, the other would read out of it.

--
Richard Moore
---------------------------------------
Aquila Cybernetic Ltd
http://www.e-aquila.com
---------------------------------------
"kd" <kd@discussions .microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:AC******** *************** ***********@mic rosoft.com...
Hi,

Thanks for your replies.

One application is developed in visual foxpro 8.0 and the other is
developed
in vb.net. This being the scenario, could you please suggest the easiet
way
to communicate between the two applications?

Thanks.
kd

"Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]" wrote:
"kd" <kd@discussions .microsoft.com> schrieb:
> Can anybody suggest as to what is the best way communicate between 2
> applications residing on the same machine?

There are many different ways to do that. You can use remoting, sockets,
other IPC mechanisms, or the 'WM_COPYDATA' message. A sample for using
'WM_COPYDATA' to exchange data between two applications written by Tom
Shelton [MVP] can be found here:

<URL:http://groups.google.d e/groups?selm=uWY QZLWjDHA.3312%4 0tk2msftngp13.p hx.gbl>

--
M S Herfried K. Wagner
M V P <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>
V B <URL:http://classicvb.org/petition/>


"Richard Moore" wrote:
Named pipes always worked well for me.

You can also use memory mapped files but named pipes are a lot easier -
and
more stable in my experience.

--
Richard Moore
---------------------------------------
Aquila Cybernetic Ltd
http://www.e-aquila.com
---------------------------------------
"kd" <kd@discussions .microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:02******** *************** ***********@mic rosoft.com...
> Hi All,
>
> Can anybody suggest as to what is the best way communicate between 2
> applications residing on the same machine?
>
> Thanks.
> kd


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