D-Bus equivalent for Windows

windows winapi ipc dbus
sharkin picture sharkin · Jan 27, 2009 · Viewed 16.1k times · Source

Anyone know of a Linux/D-Bus sort of mechanism for Windows?

Thanks

Answer

artificialidiot picture artificialidiot · Jan 27, 2009

Choose your poison:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa365574%28VS.85%29.aspx

The following IPC mechanisms are supported by Windows:

  • Clipboard
  • COM
  • Data Copy
  • DDE
  • File Mapping
  • Mailslots
  • Pipes
  • RPC
  • Windows Sockets

The closest to DBus is COM.

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