Best way to communicate between 2 .Net apps?

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Published on 2010-04-10T21:39:58Z Indexed on 2010/04/10 21:53 UTC
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If I control both applications, what is the best way to communicate between 2 exe's written in VB.Net. For example, I want to drop an XML file from one app, and pick it up with the other, but I do not want poll for the file. I've heard of named pipes, but I found it was complicated. What's the most effecient way to do this?

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