General design question

[errorfunktion]

Hi, I want to build two vb.net applications running on the same machine. One application needs to pass data to the other. How should I go about to implement this? Thanks, Gary

[Vasudevan Deepak Kumar]

How about one application having a webservice exposed and the other one consuming the same?

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[NetRams]

By sending command line argument from one application to another. Rams.

Be simple and Be sample.

[errorfunktion]

But since internet connectivity between the applications isn't necessary, isn't this redundant, or at least not efficient?

[errorfunktion]

This might work, I would appreciate if you could post a link to some code demonstrating how to cause a vb app to accept and issue command lines. The data transfer rate needs to be very fast so I'm not 100% sure on this. Still this seems like a bit of a workaround. My original thinking was to implement something like the old com object interface, but I understand this is not really part of the new .net concept, so what is the equivalent? Is this an overkill for this type application? -- modified at 5:26 Tuesday 26th June, 2007 [edit] I have thought about it a bit and command lines are not good. The data transfer is about once a second. I can't have my standard I\O hijacked by some application listening for command lines. What if I want to use other command lines while the program is running?

[NetRams]

If transfer rate is high, then go with webservice.

Be simple and Be sample.

[Dave Kreskowiak]

For your, albeit brief, description of the requirements, I'd say .NET Remoting over an IPC Channel would be a good choice. You can read up on your communication options here[^].

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[errorfunktion]

Thanks, This was what I was looking for. I am kind of a newbie to .net and the amount of classes is staggering. There is usually also no connection between object class names in the microsoft documentation to what they actually do, so figuring out what you need is quite difficult.

[Dave Kreskowiak]

errorfunktion wrote:

There is usually also no connection between object class names in the microsoft documentation to what they actually do, so figuring out what you need is quite difficult.

That's what the namespaces are for. Granted, I'd probably like to see some sub-namespaces in there to makes things a little easier, but that would break a ton of existing code if that suddenly changed.

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