How to continue sending/reading messages from named pipes / streams

Question

I\'m teaching myself to use pipes and I have two apps, one with the PipeServer class and one with the PipeClient class (shown below). The server app creates an instance of

Answer 1

StreamReader closes stream passed to it after disposal, and you are disposing StreamReader in the end of using (StreamReader sr = new StreamReader(_pipeClient)) block.

You can create StreamReader at class level in constructor, and use it in ReadMessages method

  public PipeClient(string pipeName)
    {
        _pipeClient = new NamedPipeClientStream(".", pipeName, PipeDirection.In);
        _pipeClient.Connect();
        _streamReader = new StreamReader(_pipeClient);
    }
  public void ReadMessages()
    {
        string temp;



            while ((temp = _streamReader.ReadLine()) != null)
                if(MessageReadEvent != null)
                    MessageReadEvent(temp);
    }