mailslot

A good broadcast mechanism for inhouse .net applications to announce their location and version?

I would like to provide a large number of inhouse .net applications with a lightweight way to announce that they are being used. My goal is to keep track of which users might benefit from support check-ins and/or reminders to upgrade. This is on an inhouse network. There is definitely IP connectivity among all the machines, and probab...

Mailslot with string

Hi, I need to make a message concating various parts. So I used ostringstream. Now I have a std::string or a const * char to send by mailslot. I have tryed many ways to do it but every time I receive wrong messages. I would like to know a solution to send messages by mailslot and receive it and show it by console. My code to generate an...

Simple Mailslot program not working?

Using the client and server examples found here: http://www.winsocketdotnetworkprogramming.com/winsock2programming/winsock2advancedmailslot14.html Compiling them with VS2008, running the server and then "client Myslot" I keep getting "WriteFail failed with error 53." Anyone have any ideas? Links to other Mailslot examples are also welcom...

Sharing a common memory area in Delphi between PCs

I have a Delphi 2006 app that gathers data and displays it as a summary of many channels, one channel per row on a TDrawGrid. I have the same app running on various other PCs on the network, but these other PC's are slaves - they don't gather data but merely provide a remote display of the summary. At present, the slaves just show a mi...