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by WayneBro 3422 days ago
OK, so ContentChanged is new since the last time I looked - thanks for that! However, IPC via files is still a PITA in general compared to something easy like sockets.

Using an external IP address is a terrible solution for communicating with another process on the same machine. As soon as you disconnect from the network, it will stop working.
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nitrogen 3422 days ago
What does IPC between UWP and native buy you? Do you have some legacy code that has to run natively (been there with a Java app many years ago using TCP to talk to a tiny host process for some native code)?
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vmarsy 3422 days ago
No the author, but I can see a use case where you have already existing "services"/"daemons" with your client Win32 app. If you want to rewrite the client from Win32 to UWP, it seems that you wouldn't be able to?

Why do that? Indeed one could just call Windows 10 API from its existing client [1], but it seems that you would miss out on the easy install/update from the Store and other benefits a UWP app provides.

[1] https://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2017/01/25/calling-wi...

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