Sending and receiving UDP packets between two programs on the same computer

Question

Is it possible to get two separate programs to communicate on the same computer (one-way only) over UDP through localhost/127... by sharing the same port #?

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Answer 1

I did not expect this to be possible, but.. well.. sipwiz was right.

It can be done very easily. (Please vote sipwiz's answer up!)

IPEndPoint localpt = new IPEndPoint(IPAddress.Any, 6000);

//Failed try
    try
    {
        var u = new UdpClient(5000);
        u.Client.SetSocketOption(SocketOptionLevel.Socket, SocketOptionName.ReuseAddress, true);

        UdpClient u2 = new UdpClient(5000);//KABOOM
        u2.Client.SetSocketOption(SocketOptionLevel.Socket, SocketOptionName.ReuseAddress, true);
    }
    catch (Exception)
    {
        Console.WriteLine("ERROR! You must call Bind only after setting SocketOptionName.ReuseAddress. \n And you must not pass any parameter to UdpClient's constructor or it will call Bind.");
    }

//This is how you do it (kudos to sipwiz)
    UdpClient udpServer = new UdpClient(localpt); //This is what the proprietary(see question) sender would do (nothing special) 

    //!!! The following 3 lines is what the poster needs...(and the definition of localpt (of course))
    UdpClient udpServer2 = new UdpClient();
    udpServer2.Client.SetSocketOption(SocketOptionLevel.Socket, SocketOptionName.ReuseAddress, true);
    udpServer2.Client.Bind(localpt);