Inter-Process communication options

Question

I need to subscribe inside one app for the event exposed by another app. I noticed that many people consider the using of WCF Named Pipes as the best practice. Am I right th

Answer 1

Am I right that if I choose WCF Named Pipes I'll have to use IIS And by the way, what options do I have in general?

No, not really. Although this is an option but you have other options as well. Like,

• Self-Hosting Your Service
• Hosting in Windows Services

• Hosting Using Internet Information Services (IIS)

  which you can read in detail here.

Named pipes existed even before WCF and WCF is certainly not the only way to use them