Live data transfer between two application?

Question

anonymous · Answer

There are two application; lets call them application A and application B

Application A output bunch of signals(data) every second.

Application A has programming environment which allow me to customize.

I would like to write a program that would send those data somewhere where application B can access it

anonymous · Answer

any suggestion?

lyrae · Answer

You can have them communicating over localhost using sockets and in application B provide some kind of simple API that would accept incomming data.

anonymous · Answer

Can you give me some reference documents on Sockets.

lyrae · Answer

Which programming language?

anonymous · Answer

visual basic

lyrae · Answer

Examples: http://vb.net-informations.com/communications/vb.net_socket_programming.htm http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/w89fhyex(v=vs.110).aspx System.Net.Sockets: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/System.Net.Sockets(v=vs.110).aspx

lyrae · Answer

Sending application (A) is client and receiving application (B) is server.

anonymous · Answer

I see , this will surely help me with my project. I appreciate your help sir.

lyrae · Answer

Anytime :)

rsmith6559 · Answer

Networking (sockets) is one way to do this.  Shared memory/IPC (InterProcess Communications) and the file system are others.  If application A has already been written, then it's ability to send info is what it is.  Which method you write application B to use as input is basically set in stone.

If app A can at least spew it's data to stdout, then you can pipe it into app B in the shell.