IPC Between Managed and Unmanaged Code

-Technology keeps leaping forward at a fast pace　applications in projects, large or small, normally cannot keep up with this speed. On one hand, it doesn t make sense to port old code to the new state merely for the status　on the other hand, it also isn t efficient not to use the modern technologies for new designs. Hence, what we get is a mixture of　old　and　new　stuff, or as Microsoft depicts it: the Managed and Unmanaged world, creating a new problem when both worlds have to communicate.



There exists, of course, the well-known Inter Process Communication-IPC-, the Microsoft Windows operating system mechanism for facilitating communication and data sharing between applications. This, however, is mainly a property of the old world　the .NET framework does not support such a thing, up till version 2.0. Even then, it is still a question whether it is usable for communication with the old world, or that it is only meant for inter-.NET-communication.



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