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Inter-Process Communication in .NET Using Named Pipes, Part 2

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This article explores a way of implementing Named Pipes based Inter-Process Communication between .NET applications
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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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