Read lines from named pipe in Winapi

Question

I am creating a named pipe connection between a .NET C# server app and a Win32 client app. In .NET C# it is possible to create a System.IO.StreamReader object from named pipe server/client stream. Is anything similar available in Winapi to read from named pipe line by line??

Answer 1

Named pipes are special files, as such you read from them using the file IO API, namely ReadFile, etc.

The MSDN has a complete example for opening and reading from a named pipe.