posted in C#, Coders corner on Sep 8th, 2012
Letting processes communicate on Windows can be done on several ways. By sending Windows messages, opening network connections via sockets or via Named Pipes. Here a minimalistic example of a Named Pipe Client and also its counter part, the server. With this example code only one client can connect to the server. If you want [...]
posted in C#, Coders corner on Sep 4th, 2012
Unfortunately there is no standard method in .Net you can call to resolve an systems MAC address. To do that you have to load the Windows IP helper API to make use of the SendARP function. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 [...]
posted in C#, Coders corner on Aug 31st, 2012
In place of manually creating an array of threads that do similar work you can also use the C# Threadpool methods to handle threads. You typically make use of them in server applications or generally in worker threads that do routine work in the background. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 [...]
posted in C#, Coders corner on Aug 26th, 2012
Parsing command line arguments with C# is not that easy as with Linux as it doesn’t come with a getopt parsing library. To do that with Windows you need third party libs/classes like NConsoler. I googled for it, grabbed the latest copy, added it to the C# project and it was working out of the [...]
posted in C#, Coders corner, Tools & sources on May 23rd, 2012
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