[Solved] Recommended Methods for IPC Between AutoIt and .NET

[Zohar]

Hi

 

Can anyone recommend me of methods for IPC between AutoIt and .NET?

Any infrastructure created in AutoIt that can be used?

 

Thank you

Edited November 14, 2015 by Zohar

[JohnOne]

Never done it between the two, but have with AutoIt and C++ apps.

Used memory sharing first and then changed to Sqlite db.

[Zohar]

Thank you JohnOne

 

How did you use Memory Sharing in AutoIt?

And why did you switch to a DB later on?

[JohnOne]

I used >this technique from GreenCan where my AutoIt script was parent and C++ code was child.

SQLite was a lot less farting around.

[Zohar]

And didn't you feel a change in speed?

Or it wasn't noticable?

[JohnOne]

None of any consequence.

[guinness]

You could use WM_COPYDATA, see signature for implementation in AutoIt and as for C#, I have seen something on StackOverflow.

[Zohar]

Very nice

Thank you both

Edited September 27, 2014 by Zohar

[guinness]

Let me know how you implemented in C# in the end.

[Zohar]

If I choose this method you mean..

I might choose something else, like Stdin and Stdout

[guinness]

  On 9/28/2014 at 4:46 AM, Zohar said:

I might choose something else, like Stdin and Stdout

Why? Microsoft has 9 IPC mechanisms to choose from >> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa365574(v=vs.85).aspx

[JohnOne]

One of those 9 guinness mentioned uses the Stdin and Stdout Zohar, more specifically redirecting them via named pipes, so if you want to use that, there are _NamedPipes* UDF's you can look at in the help file for AutoIt and look for some docs regarding C#.

[Zohar]

  On 9/28/2014 at 6:54 AM, guinness said:

Why? Microsoft has 9 IPC mechanisms to choose from >> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa365574(v=vs.85).aspx

Thank you for the link - very nice content.

The answer is: why switch to another method, if it only creates more hassle, without giving any additional advantage over Stdin and Stdout?

 

 

  On 9/28/2014 at 10:50 AM, JohnOne said:

One of those 9 guinness mentioned uses the Stdin and Stdout Zohar, more specifically redirecting them via named pipes, so if you want to use that, there are _NamedPipes* UDF's you can look at in the help file for AutoIt and look for some docs regarding C#.

 

Thank you JohnOne

Is there an dvantage in using the _NamedPipe* functions over simply Stdin and Stdout read and write functions?

(StdoutRead(), StdinWrite())

Edited September 28, 2014 by Zohar

[JohnOne]

I'm unsure, never really read about them, and the help file falls short regards providing examples.

Also among those 9 is mailslots, and I believe there is a UDF for that to in example scripts.

Edited September 28, 2014 by JohnOne