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LordXane
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14 years ago

Testing Mutex related processes

So we have two .Net applications that communicate via locking Mutex objects (the best way to communicate between processes I'm told, but it seems clunky, I'm open to suggestions). I'd like to w...
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AlexeyK
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14 years ago

Corby,


You can use .NET assemblies in your test. See http://smartbear.com/support/viewarticle/11403/ for complete information.


To create and lock a mutex, you can use the following code:



// Create a new mutex

var myMutex = dotNET.System_Threading.Mutex.zctor_3(false, "MyMutex");

// Lock the mutex

myMutex.WaitOne();


If needed, unlock the mutex at the end of the test run:



// Release mutex

myMutex.ReleaseMutex();