Thread: Communicating between Apps

I am trying to port a Multithreaded app from a multi-server Netware architecture to a Single server Windows 2000 architecture.

At present, I am using the Netware API to provide IPX sockets functionality to communicate between the Apps.

What I want to do is use Windows Sockets (Winsock2) to do this communication.

I have managed to find out how to do Server to Server communication using IP addresses, but I can't seem to find how to do similar communication on the same server.

i.e., instead of specifying an IP address to send/receive from, I'd like to specify a handle to another application.

Does anyone have any ideas, or know where to look for such stuff?

Ta.

D.S.

There are several solutions including piping as the other member has mentioned. Depending on the context of a communication, file-mapping is one solution. Another solution is COM. A third solution makes use of Windows interprocess messaging system. Window allows a process to send a message to another process and pass it a specific data structure. The data structure could container whatever data you want to pass to that process.

Kuphryn