(C++) How to use Windows message Queue between different applications.

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I have two different Win32 consol applications. Both these applications has multiple threads. I want to send message from thead_1 of application_1 to thread_1 of applcation_2. Can I do this ?? If yes .. then what all I need to do ??

I have used message queue beween threads of same application, but If I want to do same with threads of different applications ?
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Saurabh Raoot

Posted 10-Sep-13 0:00am

Saurabh Raoot

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User 59241 · Accepted Answer · 2013-09-10T00:39:00

What you seek to do is called inter process communication (IPC). It is more complex than communicating between threads within a process. There are many mechanisms to achieve this.

An overview is given here:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa365574(v=vs.85).aspx[^]

You will need to work out how you wish to do this but shared memory is an option.

Interprocess Communication using Shared Memory[^]