Cross-Process Locking in C#

Question

I\'ve written an API that will be used on the same box in (1) a windows service, (2) a web application, and (3) a windows forms application. They all need to share a very s

Answer 1

If all your application would reside on one machine, than you could use interprocess synchronization primitives like named mutexes and shared memory.

But I think much better approach would be to use something like WCF services (that could reside in windows service) and to expose all necessary information through specified contract. In this case all this application could reside on different machines, but anyway this solution more clean and robust.