Sending Messages between Services in C#

Question

I have 2 Windows services written on .NET 4.5.1. I am looking to see if there is functionality like WinAPI's SendMessage(IntPtr hwnd, uint Msg, IntPtr wParam, IntPtr lParam) call that i can use for a GUI-less process like a windows service!

Thanks!

possible duplicate of [Send windows message to a Windows Service](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1233195/send-windows-message-to-a-windows-service) — Gusman, Apr 25 '14 at 13:15

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 25 '14 at 13:14

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You can use Named pipes. See here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.io.pipes(v=vs.110).aspx for more details.

answered Apr 25 '14 at 13:14

Nick

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Wow, falling back to something from Unix days, nice. Worth looking in to. – grmartin Apr 25 '14 at 13:17

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:05

When two processes need to communicate, they do so using one of any number of inter-process communication (IPC) mechanisms. The answers to this SO post give you a few ideas of the possibilities. To this I would add WCF, which is the Microsoft-recommended way of having two .NET-based applications talk to one another.

Personally, I choose sockets for this kind of thing, but it really does come down to your particular situation and your comfort level.

HTH

Sending Messages between Services in C#

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