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Inter-Process Communication in .NET Using Named Pipes: Part 1

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This article explores a way of implementing Named Pipes based Inter-Process Communication between .NET applications
using System;
using System.Runtime.Serialization;

using AppModule.InterProcessComm;

namespace AppModule.NamedPipes {
	#region Comments
	/// <summary>
	/// This exception is thrown by named pipes communication methods.
	/// </summary>
	#endregion
	public class NamedPipeIOException : InterProcessIOException {
		#region Comments
		/// <summary>
		/// Creates a NamedPipeIOException instance.
		/// </summary>
		/// <param name="text">The error message text.</param>
		#endregion
		public NamedPipeIOException(String text) : base(text) {
		}
		#region Comments
		/// <summary>
		/// Creates a NamedPipeIOException instance.
		/// </summary>
		/// <param name="text">The error message text.</param>
		/// <param name="errorCode">The native error code.</param>
		#endregion
		public NamedPipeIOException(String text, uint errorCode) : base(text) {
			this.ErrorCode = errorCode;
			if (errorCode == NamedPipeNative.ERROR_CANNOT_CONNECT_TO_PIPE) {
				this.IsServerAvailable = false;
			}
		}
		#region Comments
		/// <summary>
		/// Creates a NamedPipeIOException instance.
		/// </summary>
		/// <param name="info">The serialization information.</param>
		/// <param name="context">The streaming context.</param>
		#endregion
		protected NamedPipeIOException(SerializationInfo info, StreamingContext context) : base(info, context) {
		}
	}
}

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Ivan Latunov is a Software Architect with long term commercial experience in the areas of software architecture and engineering, design and development of web and distributed applications and business and technical analysis. Technical blog. Website: ivanweb.com.

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