The Old New Thing

Using WM_COPYDATA to marshal message parameters since the window manager otherwise doesn’t know how

October 19, 2012 Oct 19, 2012 10/19/12

Raymond Chen

Miral asks for the recommended way of passing messages across processes if they require custom marshaling. There is no one recommended way of doing the custom marshaling, although some are hackier than others. Probably the most architecturally beautiful way of doing it is to use a mechanism that does perform automatic marshaling, like COM ...