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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
using System;

namespace AppModule.InterProcessComm {
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	/// <summary>
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	#endregion
	public enum InterProcessConnectionState {
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		/// <summary>
		/// 
		/// </summary>
		#endregion
		NotSet = 0,
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		/// <summary>
		/// 
		/// </summary>
		#endregion
		Error = 1,
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		/// <summary>
		/// 
		/// </summary>
		#endregion
		Creating = 2,
		#region Comments
		/// <summary>
		/// 
		/// </summary>
		#endregion
		Created = 3,
		#region Comments
		/// <summary>
		/// 
		/// </summary>
		#endregion
		WaitingForClient = 4,
		#region Comments
		/// <summary>
		/// 
		/// </summary>
		#endregion
		ConnectedToClient = 5,
		#region Comments
		/// <summary>
		/// 
		/// </summary>
		#endregion
		ConnectingToServer = 6,
		#region Comments
		/// <summary>
		/// 
		/// </summary>
		#endregion
		ConnectedToServer = 7,
		#region Comments
		/// <summary>
		/// 
		/// </summary>
		#endregion
		Reading = 8,
		#region Comments
		/// <summary>
		/// 
		/// </summary>
		#endregion
		ReadData = 9,
		#region Comments
		/// <summary>
		/// 
		/// </summary>
		#endregion
		Writing = 10,
		#region Comments
		/// <summary>
		/// 
		/// </summary>
		#endregion
		WroteData = 11,
		#region Comments
		/// <summary>
		/// 
		/// </summary>
		#endregion
		Flushing = 12,
		#region Comments
		/// <summary>
		/// 
		/// </summary>
		#endregion
		FlushedData = 13,
		#region Comments
		/// <summary>
		/// 
		/// </summary>
		#endregion
		Disconnecting = 14,
		#region Comments
		/// <summary>
		/// 
		/// </summary>
		#endregion
		Disconnected = 15,
		#region Comments
		/// <summary>
		/// 
		/// </summary>
		#endregion
		Closing = 16,
		#region Comments
		/// <summary>
		/// 
		/// </summary>
		#endregion
		Closed = 17,
	}
}

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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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