Thursday, April 05, 2007
SDF 2.2 preview: IPC with EventWaitHandle

Another feature that missed the 2.1 cutoff - we've added a couple things to our existing EventWaitHandle:

A Set() overload:
public bool Set(int data)

A GetData method:
public int GetData()

For simple, fast, and really easy to implement IPC you can just do this:

Process A
EventWaitHandle wh = new EventWaitHandle(false, EventResetMode.AutoReset, "MY_EVENT_NAME");

int myData = 10;
wh.Set(myData);

Process B
EventWaitHandle wh = new EventWaitHandle(false, EventResetMode.AutoReset, "MY_EVENT_NAME");

if (m_eventsHandle.WaitOne())
{
    int myData = m_eventsHandle.GetData();
}

No MessageWindows, no queues - no ugliness at all - and it works with really minimal headless CE systems.
.NET Compact Framework | OpenNETCF
4/5/2007 11:42:43 AM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)  #    Comments [0]  | 
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