Synchronization between two processes in C#.?

Question

Is there any way so that we can synchronize two independent processes? Like if they are sharing a resource, I would like to sync them.

I am using C#.

Answer 1

you can use the Mutex class

see documentation here : http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.threading.mutex.aspx

Answer 2

You can use WCF with pipe binding, or named synchronization objects, Mutex for example for synchronization between two processes

Answer 3

Mutexes will give you cross process sync.

You could also implement an API in WCF using named pipes, which could give you a nice synchronisation in OO code without system calls and it fully unit testable. Named pipes would also give you not just sync but communication as well.