I wasn’t intending to write a third piece on this, but after spending more time with the prototype from the previous post, I realized that we’ve got a little more redundant code than I typically like to see.  While it’s still fresh, I’d like to take the [...]

In the previous post, I provided a glimpse into how to use a memory-mapped file to establish a primitive interprocess communication system, responsible for passing along the process ID from one process, and a “shutdown gracefully” message from another.

To recap, we have two separate applications:

ConsoleAppListener

Memory-mapped files are great concept that have been buried in various versions of Windows for years.  Finally they’ve been exposed and incorporated into .NET 4.0 and are available in Visual Studio 2010.

A memory-mapped file is essentially just a file, given a unique name– no extension necessary– that exists only [...]