Inter Process Communication Implementation In Windows C++

Interprocess Communication And Implementation in Windows C++

What you'll learn

Concepts of Inter Process Communication

Various IPC mechanisms to implement in C++ windows

Core concepts related to Shared Memory, Pipes, MailSlots and Message Passing

Practical Code Implementation with sample downloadable code

Requirements

To pursue this course, you should be aware about the C++ programming language and Windows Internal concepts (like Windows Handles, Processes, threads etc)

Description

Interprocess communication (IPC) is a fundamental concept in programming, allowing separate processes to exchange data and signals efficiently and securely. In the context of C++, IPC mechanisms enable coordination and cooperation among running applications as they share resources and data on various operating systems. Understanding and utilizing IPC can greatly enhance the functionality and performance of applications.### Understanding Processes and the Need for IPCA process is an instance of a computer program that's being executed, which contains the program code and its current activity. In modern operating systems, each process operates in its own virtual address space and does not have permission to access the memory or resources of another process directly. This isolation ensures that processes do not interfere with each other, which enhances the stability and security of software applications. However, there are scenarios where processes need to share data or notify each other about events or changes, which is where IPC comes into play.These concepts are used for most of the implementations in real life server side projects. In this course you will learn about Shared Memory, Pipes and MailSlots. The downloadable resources are available to help you out to see the real code in action.

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Introduction

Section 2: Shared Memory

Lecture 2 Introduction to shared memory

Lecture 3 How Shared memory works

Lecture 4 Memory Mapped Files and Shared Memory

Lecture 5 First Process - Writing to Shared Memory

Lecture 6 Second Process - Reading from Shared Memory

Section 3: Pipes In Windows

Lecture 7 What Are Pipes in Windows (Anonymous and Named Pipes)

Lecture 8 Sample Code for anonymous Pipe

Lecture 9 Named Pipes Mechanism

Lecture 10 Multithreaded Pipe Server Code and implementation

Lecture 11 Named Pipe Client demo - send and receive message from server

Lecture 12 Named Pipe Server with Overlapped Input Output Concept

Lecture 13 Overlapped I/O pipe server code implementation

Lecture 14 Transactions on Named Pipes

Lecture 15 Sample Example for Named Pipe Transaction

Section 4: MailSlots and It's Implemenation

Lecture 16 Introduction to Mail Slots

Lecture 17 Mailslots names and operations

Lecture 18 Creating a mailslot

Lecture 19 Writing to mailslot

Lecture 20 Reading from a mailslot

Professionals working on server side C code who wants to implement and learn the IPC concepts