Named Pipes Connection

Hey everybody! I'm trying to support Windows in a project and I'm trying to connected to the Discord named pipe (an IPC server) that runs on Windows when the Discord client is open.

So far I did this (and a bit more but this is not the point):

var pipe = new NamedPipeClientStream(
    @"\\.\pipe\discord-ipc-0",
    @"discord-ipc-0",
    PipeDirection.InOut,
    PipeOptions.None,
    TokenImpersonationLevel.Impersonation
);

Console.WriteLine("Connecting...");
try { pipe.Connect(); }
catch (Exception e) {
    Console.WriteLine("Not connected");
    return (false, e.Message);
}

Console.WriteLine("Connected");

var pipe = new NamedPipeClientStream(
    @"\\.\pipe\discord-ipc-0",
    @"discord-ipc-0",
    PipeDirection.InOut,
    PipeOptions.None,
    TokenImpersonationLevel.Impersonation
);

Console.WriteLine("Connecting...");
try { pipe.Connect(); }
catch (Exception e) {
    Console.WriteLine("Not connected");
    return (false, e.Message);
}

Console.WriteLine("Connected");

My issue is first two params of

NamedPipeClientStream

NamedPipeClientStream

, I haven't find what I should put there or show it should look, the .Net documentation about this class is not very explanatory. So in this state it catches

The specified path is invalid

The specified path is invalid

but if I change the first param to

@".\pipe"

@".\pipe"

the program gets stuck in

pipe.Connect()

pipe.Connect()

(but it is still possible to quit with

^C

^C

).

If anybody knows how to do this please help :) I'm a Linux femboy, not a windows pro

C#•14mo ago•

8 replies

elisoli

Named Pipes Connection

var pipe = new NamedPipeClientStream(
    @"\\.\pipe\discord-ipc-0",
    @"discord-ipc-0",
    PipeDirection.InOut,
    PipeOptions.None,
    TokenImpersonationLevel.Impersonation
);

Console.WriteLine("Connecting...");
try { pipe.Connect(); }
catch (Exception e) {
    Console.WriteLine("Not connected");
    return (false, e.Message);
}

Console.WriteLine("Connected");

var pipe = new NamedPipeClientStream(
    @"\\.\pipe\discord-ipc-0",
    @"discord-ipc-0",
    PipeDirection.InOut,
    PipeOptions.None,
    TokenImpersonationLevel.Impersonation
);

Console.WriteLine("Connecting...");
try { pipe.Connect(); }
catch (Exception e) {
    Console.WriteLine("Not connected");
    return (false, e.Message);
}

Console.WriteLine("Connected");

My issue is first two params of

NamedPipeClientStream

NamedPipeClientStream

, I haven't find what I should put there or show it should look, the .Net documentation about this class is not very explanatory. So in this state it catches

The specified path is invalid

The specified path is invalid

but if I change the first param to

@".\pipe"

@".\pipe"

the program gets stuck in

pipe.Connect()

pipe.Connect()

(but it is still possible to quit with

^C

^C

).

If anybody knows how to do this please help :) I'm a Linux femboy, not a windows pro

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