How to communicate between processes? [duplicate]

Question

I can come up only with serialization, using of WCF, etc. But is there the standard common way for communication between 2 processes in .Net?

UPDATE: What I actually mean how to communicate between 2 processes locally when I do not need to use WCF, Remoting and network at all. Are there some ways of doing it? And I am interesting in more elegant ways than storing data to HDD or to database.

Answer 1

With no other information, I would suggest using WCF with a named pipes configuration:

What is the best choice for .NET inter-process communication?

Answer 2

You can also look at .NET Remoting. But for all intents and purposes you shouldn't be using it unless you have explicit requirements that are satisfied by remoting like...in-process, cross-appdomain communication.

I would just look at WCF's NetNamedPipeBinding. It sounds like it's exactly what you want: http://www.codeproject.com/KB/WCF/wcfipcsample.aspx

Also it seems this question has already been answered:

Interprocess communication for Windows in C# (.NET 2.0)

C# - WCF - inter-process communication