How to make WCF with the name pipe address equal to WinApi?

Question

I noticed that WCF named pipe address

net.pipe://localhost/mynamedpipe

and Windows API

\\.\pipe\mynamedpipe

do not collide. Why is this? How can I get them to point to the same channel?

Answer 1

There is no documented way to do this. After several tests, I came to the following conclusions:

If you have a WCF server and a Win32 C ++ client, the latter will see the first address as a UUID in the following format:

12345678-1234-1234-1234-123456789abc

And this UUID seems random, as it changes for the same WCF address every time the server starts.

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Answer 2

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