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Asked: 2026-05-18T11:53:53+00:00

The scenario that I bring forward is basically that of, interaction between two .NET

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The scenario that I bring forward is basically that of, interaction between two .NET executables.

I have made a .NET Windows Forms application in C# (Application-A) that runs on a user’s machine and does some specific activity, due to which it collects some data.
Now I have another .NET Windows Forms executable (Application-B), also made in C#, which also does some specific activity based certain inputs or data provided.

Now what I want to do here is, call Application-B from the Application-A and pass the some data to it.

How do I accomplish this?

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  1. Editorial Team

    You can use several options. You have some resources for each option below.

    • .NET Remoting
    • WCF
    • Use a communication file
    • MSMQ

    Two last options are valid only if the processes are in the same machine.

    Since they are two separated processes I think that the easiest way to do this is using .NET Remoting. Here you can find documentation and examples about how to do it.

    An alternative to Remoting is WCF (>= .NET 3.0). It performs better than remoting.

    If the processes will be always in the same machine, if you don’t want to use remoting on localhost you can communicate them through a file (simple solutions usually work fine!)

    And other more complex solution is communicate them using a Message Queue (MSMQ). Here you cand find out an example about how to use it.

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