I remember back in the day while using C and win32 i had a number of IPC techniques. So far i haven't ran into any of them in .NET or seen them outside of C so i thought i ask how might i do these inter-process communication techniques?
Shared/Global memory. Simply allocate ram that can be change by another process without any signal.
Window message. I remember using SendMessage and using WM_USER + N and told another app when i touched shared memory, ask it to change files or settings and sometimes told other app that i typed in some keystrokes to act as a macro because i sometimes feel lazy.
Dynamic Data Exchange. I tried but never could get this to work. From what i remember (warning this could be completely wrong) you register yourself to a global message or event and another app (usually yours) would send message and the two or so apps can communicated to each other, post message and you can have integration between two apps this way. I'm very interested to know what replaced this.
There are also named pipes which i know are still used and seen. And i remember people recommending sockets for IPC but i never liked to do that and i know that still exist and can be used if i need.
What else did i miss and what replaced this techniques? I know there are global mutex which is cool. I'm still looking for a modern way to send messages between two apps (point 2). I always wondered if there was some kind of FIFO queue that wasn't in a pipe. Like a windows message except i can push data (like 1k) instead of sending msgs and allocating global memory each time.
-edit- bump. this thread is still relevant to me at the moment.