Description: The Windows operating system provides mechanisms for facilitating communications and data sharing between applications. Collectively, the activities enabled by these mechanisms are called...

Description:
The Windows operating system provides mechanisms for facilitating communications and data sharing between applications. Collectively, the activities enabled by these mechanisms are called Interprocess communications (IPC). Some forms of IPC facilitate the division of labor among several specialized processes. Other forms of IPC facilitate the division of labor among computers on a network. Typically, applications can use IPC categorized as clients or servers. A client is an application or a process that requests a service from some other application or process. A server is an application or a process that responds to a client request. Many applications act as both a client and a server, depending on the situation (Windows MSDN). The purpose of this assignment is for students to gain practical experience with the mechanism of Windows Interprocess communication.

· Skills: Some of the practical skills students will gain from this assignment include:

o Learning how design and develop programs that creates IPC objects

· Knowledge: This assignment will also help students become familiar with:

o The mechanism of Windows Interprocess Communication

Windows supports more than 10 different mechanisms for interprocess communication as listed below. Your task is to develop an application or a client/server application that utilize
RPC.

Submission:
Submit the source code for your application and include a one-page description of what function the IPC object is performing in the application and the documentation of how the instructor can compile and run your program.