How to do a non-waiting write on a named pipe (c#) ?

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Hello,

I'm using .net 3.5 named pipes and my server side is :

serverPipeStream = new NamedPipeServerStream("myPipe", PipeDirection.InOut, 1, PipeTransmissionMode.Byte, PipeOptions.Asynchronous);

When I write some data with, say, BinaryWriter, the write() call itself doesn't return until the client side has called a read() on its NamedPipeClientStream.

How can I make my write() to the named pipe non-blocking ?

Thanks in advance for any help.

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