How to make a process high priority (critical)

Question

I have a win CE application which negotiate with an external serial port.

The serial port protocol has some restricted rules. For example:

If you receive an ANNOUNCE signal, you should send your ACKNOWLEDGE signal up to 3 milliseconds after that otherwise you failed the negotiation!

So I need to my running process (and though running listening thread) to be ran in a high priority mode. I think the OS should delay/postpone ALL uncritical tasks (it includes all form's painting, repainting, updating, etc.). At result the UI maybe not responsive in some times but it is not important.

I want to know if there is a way/workaround to achieve this goal or not.

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 07 '12 at 00:36

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Look at the Smart Device Framework.

http://www.opennetcf.com/library/sdf/

There is a OpenNETCF.ThreadEntry.SetPriority() method.

answered Mar 07 '12 at 00:36

Léon Pelletier

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I didn't see that previously. Are you sure It does what I want? I should check and test it before marking it as answer :-) anyway thanks! – Mahmoud Moravej Mar 07 '12 at 06:53
Have you been able to give priority to your process using the compact framework? – Léon Pelletier Mar 16 '12 at 02:29

How to make a process high priority (critical)

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