IPC Mechanisms in C# - Usage and Best Practices

Question

I have used IPC in win32 code a while ago. [Critical sections, events & semaphores]

How is the scene in .NET enviroment? Are there any tutorial explaining all av

Answer 1

Apart from the obvious (WCF), there is a ZeroMQ binding for C#/CLR which is pretty good:

http://www.zeromq.org/bindings:clr

Does message-oriented IPC, pub/sub and various other strategies with much less code and config than WCF.

It's also at least an order of magnitude faster than anything else and has less latency if you require low latency comms.

With respects to semaphores, locks, mutexes etc. If you share by communicating rather than communicate by sharing, you'll have a whole load less hassle than the traditional paradigm.