Only one client can connect to named pipe

Question

I am currently learning about named pipes in Windows using ASP.NET 3.5 and C#. I wrote a small server program which creates a named pipe:

using (NamedPipeServerStream pipeStream = new NamedPipeServerStream(pipeName))
{
  pipeStream.WaitForConnection();
  // do sth.
}

and a client application opening the pipe like this:

using (NamedPipeClientStream pipeStream = new NamedPipeClientStream(pipeName))
{ 
  pipeStream.Connect();
  // do sth.
}

This works great as long as only one client connects to the pipe. It can both read and write. If I try to connect a second client, the code never exceeds the line

pipeStream.Connect();

Both the server and all clients are running on the same machine. Any ideas?

Thank you very much in advance!

Answer 1

you can look up some of the info here: Number of Clients that can connect to a Named Pipe

and here in MSDN: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa365594%28VS.85%29.aspx

from what i understand, you should create a multi-threaded application. main thread should be responsible for the future connections, and each new connection should be launched in new thread.