2010/9/27 Martin Sustrik <[email protected]>

> Ack. Using named pipes requires some polling mechanism that works on
> named pipe HANDLE first though.
>
>
I found an amusing list of IPC methods on Windows from MSDN,

Clipboard<http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa365574(VS.85).aspx#base.using_the_clipboard_for_ipc>
COM<http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa365574(VS.85).aspx#base.using_com_for_ipc>
Data 
Copy<http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa365574(VS.85).aspx#base.using_data_copy_for_ipc>
DDE<http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa365574(VS.85).aspx#base.using_dde_for_ipc>
File 
Mapping<http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa365574(VS.85).aspx#base.using_a_file_mapping_for_ipc>
Mailslots<http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa365574(VS.85).aspx#base.using_a_mailslot_for_ipc>
Pipes<http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa365574(VS.85).aspx#base.using_pipes_for_ipc>
RPC<http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa365574(VS.85).aspx#base.using_rpc_for_ipc>
Windows 
Sockets<http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa365574(VS.85).aspx#base.using_windows_sockets_for_ipc>

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa365574(VS.85).aspx

It would probably be worth investigating shared memory (File Mapping) or
named pipes for content and a Windows Socket for synchronisation.

-- 
Steve-o
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