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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;

using AppModule.InterProcessComm;

namespace AppModule.NamedPipes {
	#region Comments
	/// <summary>
	/// Holds the operating system native handle and the current state of the pipe connection.
	/// </summary>
	#endregion
	public sealed class PipeHandle {
		#region Comments
		/// <summary>
		/// The operating system native handle.
		/// </summary>
		#endregion
		public IntPtr Handle;
		#region Comments
		/// <summary>
		/// The current state of the pipe connection.
		/// </summary>
		#endregion
		public InterProcessConnectionState State;
		#region Comments
		/// <summary>
		/// Creates a PipeHandle instance using the passed native handle.
		/// </summary>
		/// <param name="hnd">The native handle.</param>
		#endregion
		public PipeHandle (int hnd) {
			this.Handle = new IntPtr(hnd);
			this.State = InterProcessConnectionState.NotSet;
		}
		#region Comments
		/// <summary>
		/// Creates a PipeHandle instance using the provided native handle and state.
		/// </summary>
		/// <param name="hnd">The native handle.</param>
		/// <param name="state">The state of the pipe connection.</param>
		#endregion
		public PipeHandle (int hnd, InterProcessConnectionState state) {
			this.Handle = new IntPtr(hnd);
			this.State = state;
		}
		#region Comments
		/// <summary>
		/// Creates a PipeHandle instance with an invalid native handle.
		/// </summary>
		#endregion
		public PipeHandle () {
			this.Handle = new IntPtr(NamedPipeNative.INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE);
			this.State = InterProcessConnectionState.NotSet;
		}
	}
}

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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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