Sharing objects between application instances using WCF

[Arjay]

Your startup code is still incorrect.

Compare the timings of the following code snippets

Good

int main(array<System::String ^> ^args)
{
	bool mutexWasCreated;

	Console::WriteLine( System::String::Format( L"Starting client: {0}", DateTime::Now ) );

	Mutex^ m = gcnew Mutex( false, "WcfShareTestServerLaunchedEvent", mutexWasCreated );

	// Block other processes until startup has completed
	m->WaitOne( );

	// Start up the server
	if( mutexWasCreated )
	{
		Console::WriteLine( System::String::Format( L"Starting server - pid: {0}", Process::GetCurrentProcess( )->Id ) );

		// Simulate startup up of WCF server (pause 10 seconds)
		Thread::Sleep( 10000 );
	}

	// Allow access to other processes after startup has finished
	m->ReleaseMutex( );

	Console::WriteLine( System::String::Format( L"Using server - pid: {0}", Process::GetCurrentProcess( )->Id ) );
	Console::WriteLine( System::String::Format( L"Client has access: {0}", DateTime::Now ) );


	Console::ReadLine( );

    return 0;
}

Bad

int main(array<System::String ^> ^args)
{
	bool mutexWasCreated;

	Console::WriteLine( System::String::Format( L"Starting client: {0}", DateTime::Now ) );

	Mutex^ m = gcnew Mutex( true, "WcfShareTestServerLaunchedEvent", mutexWasCreated );

	// Block other processes until startup has completed
	// m->WaitOne( );

	// Start up the server
	if( mutexWasCreated )
	{
		Console::WriteLine( System::String::Format( L"Starting server - pid: {0}", Process::GetCurrentProcess( )->Id ) );

		// Simulate startup up of WCF server (pause 10 seconds)
		Thread::Sleep( 10000 );
	}

	// Allow access to other processes after startup has finished
	// m->ReleaseMutex( );

	Console::WriteLine( System::String::Format( L"Using server - pid: {0}", Process::GetCurrentProcess( )->Id ) );
	Console::WriteLine( System::String::Format( L"Client has access: {0}", DateTime::Now ) );


	Console::ReadLine( );

    return 0;
}

Bottom line, is that setting TakeOwnership value to True, isn't sufficient to block the opening of the mutex.