c# - Send Message to other Process -

i want able communicate between server-application , client-application. both applications written in c#/wpf. interfaces located in separate dll both applications have reference it.

in interface-dll idatainfo-interface looks like:

public interface idatainfo     {         byte[] header { get; }         byte[] data { get; }     } 

the server-application calls client following code:

serializer<idatainfo> serializer = new serializer<idatainfo>(); idatainfo datainfo = new datainfo(headerbytes, contentbytes); process clientprocess = process.start("client.exe", serializer.serialize(datainfo)); 

the client-applications gets message server by:

serializer<idatainfo> serializer = new serializer<idatainfo>(); idatainfo datainfo = serializer.deserialize(string.join(" ", app.args)); 

the serializer-class generic class uses soap-formatter serialize/deserialze. code looks like:

public class serializer<t> {     private static readonly encoding encoding = encoding.unicode;      public string serialize(t value)     {         string result;         using (memorystream memorystream = new memorystream())         {             soapformatter soapformatter = new soapformatter();             soapformatter.serialize(memorystream, value);             result = encoding.getstring(memorystream.toarray());             memorystream.flush();         }         return result;     }      public t deserialize(string soap)     {         t result;         using (memorystream memorystream = new memorystream(encoding.getbytes(soap)))         {             soapformatter soapformatter = new soapformatter();             result = (t)soapformatter.deserialize(memorystream);         }         return result;     } } 

until here works fine. server creates client , client can deserialize it's argument idatainfo-object.

now want able send message server running client. introduced iclient-interface in interface-dll method void receivemessage(string message);

the mainwindow.xaml.cs implementing iclient-interface.

my question how can iclient-object in server, when have process-object. thought activator.createinstance, have no clue how this. i'm pretty sure can iclient handle of process, don't know how.

any idea?

as other posts mention common way create service, keep more simple consider @ servicestack. afaik servicestack used on stackoverflow

there course on pluralsight

servicestack easy host in .net dll (without iis , on) , doesn't have configuration complexity of wcf.

also endpoints available soap , rest without need configure anything

for example defines hello world service

public class helloservice : iservice<hello> {     public object execute(hello request)     {         return new helloresponse { result = "hello, " + request.name };     } } 

here example of client code:

var response = client.send<helloresponse>(new hello { name = "world!" }); console.writeline(response.result); // => hello, world 

you can find more complex examples , walk-throughs at: servicestack.hello