sending an object trough named pipes

Question

I'm trying to use named pipes in C# they work right with strings and messages but does anyone know how to serialize an object through a named pipe? I don't know if named pipes allow something like that in general how can I send an object (for example a dataset or a class) trough a pipe? Do pipes work only with strings or byte arrays? Thanks in advance

dantin · Answer

Hi Simon I made the same thing using remoting and sockets too I'd like to try pipes to test different solution's performance. I use a named pipes library downloaded somewhere there is a method to send an array of bytes but I don't know how to send a serialized object. Can you tell me something more about your idea?

shimtanny · Answer

Hi again Why you don't use .net remoting? Simon

shimtanny · Answer

Hi Lou Teena Am i right that you use P/Invoke or MC++ to wrapp around the native named pipes? Try to sign the objects you wannt to transfer with the [Serializable] attribute. An other idea is to serialize the objects with the System.Xml.XmlSerializer. Simon