How to listen in C# to a Win32 event

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I am looking for an example in which I can fire an event on a different process.
Now, I know in C++ I can use Win32's CreateEvent, that's fairly simple.

But is there a way to listen to that event in C#?

Posted 10-Jun-13 20:46pm

Joezer BH

Updated 10-Jun-13 20:47pm

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CPallini · Accepted Answer · 2013-06-10T20:54:00

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Have a look at this Stack Overflow question: "Synchronizing 2 processes using interprocess synchronizations objects - Mutex or AutoResetEvent"[^].

Posted 10-Jun-13 20:54pm

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Joezer BH 11-Jun-13 3:08am

That means I have to create a thread myself and tell it to wait for the signal.
(and put it in an endless loop so that I can get later signals...)

Is there a way to get "normal" event behavior, i.e. to get a call to a specified event handler