C# accessing settings from another program

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I have recently made a program that has a string collection in it, for example it will have this

string collection name = stringdata

hi<br />
1234<br />
4321<br />
hello<br />
1234<br />
4321

and lets call the program "program X".

Now I have made a program that is "program X" but I just updated it. And now We call this "program X" "program Y" now, because it is just an updated version of it.

I want to access the stringdata from "program X" and put the stringdata into "program Y" is this possible?

Posted 2-Feb-13 0:07am

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OriginalGriff · Answer 1 · 2013-02-02T00:12:00

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You can't access the memory of a running program from a different program (or even from a separate running instance of the same program) so unless you wrote "Program X" to expose it in some way (via a file, or a socket connection, or some other means) then you cannot access it in "Program Y".

Trying to access the memory of a different application is one of the main reasons for an application crashing - whether it is deliberate or not you can't access outside your own processes memory space.

Posted 2-Feb-13 0:12am

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[no name] 2-Feb-13 6:15am

Ah I see I thought I probably couldn't do it :( can you please give me some information on this socket? It my be useful if I want to update a program

OriginalGriff 2-Feb-13 6:32am

There is a good guide to sockets here:
http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/5252/Sockets-in-C
(ignore the name, it's C# - '#' isn't a normal character!)
But if you are designing from scratch, it might be an idea to read up on WCF instead - it's a much more modern way to do it!

Garth J Lancaster 2-Feb-13 6:33am

As per OriginalGriff's Solution : there are plenty of examples of socket servers etc out there on the net - eg http://tech.pro/tutorial/704/csharp-tutorial-simple-threaded-tcp-server ..