System.IO.Exception: Pipe is broken

Question

I have two .NET applications that talk to each other over a named pipe. Everything is great the first time through, but after the first message is sent, and the server is going

Answer 1

I'll post my code that seems to work - I was curious since I never did anything with pipes. I didn't find the class you name for the server-side in the relevant namespace, so here's the code based on the NamedPipeServerStream. The callback stuff is just because I couldn't be bothered with two projects.

NamedPipeServerStream s = new NamedPipeServerStream("p", PipeDirection.In);
Action a = callBack;
a.BeginInvoke(s, ar => { }, null);
...
private void callBack(NamedPipeServerStream pipe)
{
  while (true)
  {
    pipe.WaitForConnection();
    StreamReader sr = new StreamReader(pipe);
    Console.WriteLine(sr.ReadToEnd());
    pipe.Disconnect();
  }
}

And the client does this:

using (var pipe = new NamedPipeClientStream(".", "p", PipeDirection.Out))
using (var stream = new StreamWriter(pipe))
{
  pipe.Connect();
  stream.Write("Hello");
}

I can repeat above block multiple times with the server running, no prob.