Talking to a running WPF application from commandline arguments

Question

I have a WPF application which starts without a window and has a main method as such in the App.xaml.cs,

static void Main(String[] args)

once the application is loaded and running I want to continue to send commandline arguments to it IF POSSIBLE e.g.

myApp.exe "string 1", "string 2"

And get it to react appropriately. Is this possible and if so how or what method should I use the do achieve this?

Answer 1

Hi,@More questions than answers . Welcome Microsoft Q&A.
There are three ways to troubleshoot talking to a running WPF application from command line arguments. You could try to refer to it

1. You can use Named Pipe classes in c# .
2. You can pass files and the systemfileWatcher class.
   Put the files in a folder, then other processes will audit this folder, and finally you can transfer the information.
3. You can use memoryMappedFile.
   Open a view to see the same mempry region and transfer data in each process.

For more details, you could try to refer to the solution here.

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