how to pass some “statistics” from c# program to another program?

Question

I have command-line program that \"do a lot of work\" and produce \"a lot of statistics\". It\'s stocks trading software pretty critical to delays, bugs, and whatever, so I don\

Answer 1

It would probably be more efficient and resilient to have the 'server' store it's information within a Database and have the 'client' poll this as and when required.

Answer 2

This is going way beyond a single comment of course. What you will eventually need is a dispatching mechanism to notify subscribers about the data record update. Since the amount of data is huge, you might not want to opt for a persistence storage. If the dispatching to multiple subscribers looks overwhelming so far, you can go with a simple interproc (via shared object (aka named pipes) for the consumer-provider to be on the same machine or something more distributed otherwise)

Answer 3

You can try to use a database with a queuing system or a messaging appliance. A server can receive messages to a queue and then the GUI can "subscribe" to the messages.

Microsoft Message Queuing

Also you can take a look at memory mapped files:

Memory-mapped file

These can be shared amongst applications simultaneously when configured properly.

Hope that helps,

Jeffrey Kevin Pry

Answer 4

I suggest you look at a technology like DDS. There are no databases involved and it is not hard to implement. I began looking at OpenSplice DDS recently. There are a number of different implementations out there.

Answer 5

You can use any form of IPC (inter-process communication).

Since you're planning to go over the network in the future, I recommend WCF. If the GUI program isn't .NET, then you may need to use a lower-level solution, such as named pipes or sockets.