A Primer to (Named) Pipes
To reinforce your knowledge of streams acquired in the previous section, let’s explore another System.IO capability that was added a few .NET Framework versions ago: (named) pipes. The concept of a named pipe is to provide an efficient interprocess communication mechanism that’s natively supported by the operating system. Although you won’t likely use such a low-level mechanism—in favor of higher abstraction levels as provided by Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), for example—it acts as a good sample of working with streams.
A total of five Stream subclasses exist in the System.IO.Pipes namespace, one of which ...
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