What is the preferred way of passing data between two applications on the same system?

Question

I have an application (A) that needs to launch another application (B). I need to pass data between the applications. I can think of two approaches. The first is to open

Answer 1

You can't effectively share data via a DLL. Other ways:

• disk files
• pipes
• shared memory
• messages
• RPC
• CORBA
• COM
• etc.