What methods exist for local remote procedure call?

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I am working on two separate C# applications, and I'm trying to determine what is the best way to create a remote procedure call from one app to the other. Webservices are not necessary in this case because the applications will always run on the same machine (Windows OS). What types of RPC are available in C# and .net that I can use?

score 8 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 16 '10 at 15:15

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I would recommend WCF with NetNamedPipeBinding for interprocess communication. Here's an example.

There's also Remoting which has been around since .NET 1.0 but becoming obsolete in favor of WCF.

answered Nov 16 '10 at 15:15

Darin Dimitrov

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Is there any samples? The sample in the link looks like server side only. – jw_ Jan 10 '20 at 04:29

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 16 '10 at 15:16

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There are several options available to you here. The most prominent though are

Both can be used for communication between processes on a remote or local machine.

answered Nov 16 '10 at 15:16

JaredPar

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Second link is broken now. There seems to be only VB code sample in the first link, why? – jw_ Jan 10 '20 at 04:25

score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Nov 16 '10 at 15:26

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I would recommend .NET Remoting configured with IPC channels, in my opinion this is the fastest way of communication between applications running on the same PC.

answered Nov 16 '10 at 15:26

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score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Jul 12 '16 at 06:42

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Try Protobuffers over Win32 RPC

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MarcF · Answer 5 · 2012-02-17T18:29:00.017

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networkComms.net provides very general RPC functionality, see RPCExample.cs.

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answered Feb 17 '12 at 18:18

MarcF

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What methods exist for local remote procedure call?

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