Re: desktop app talk with service app

One easy option would be to use RealThinClient SDK (which is free) from:
http://www.realthinclient.com/about_sdk.htm
This would make the whole thing really easy to implement. It uses TCP to communicate which means it will be a bit slower than some other options like named pipes. But that also means that you could later decide to move the server to another computer without any problem. Highly recommended.
Ivan
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