---
title: "Shared Memory Wrapper"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/5/1/shared-memory-wrapper.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/5/1/shared-memory-wrapper.html"
published: "2003-05-01T11:28:00"
updated: "2003-05-01T11:28:00"
tags: [".Net Quotations"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "Rich has written a shared memory wrapper for .NET. It looks pretty handy. Here's his description : I've created a wrapper for named shared memory that was part of a larger project. It basically allows serialized types…"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
---

# Shared Memory Wrapper

By Roy Osherove May 1, 2003 In [.Net Quotations](https://osherove.com/blog/category/net-quotations)

**Historical article** · Originally published May 1, 2003; technical details may be outdated.

<table><tbody><tr><td><div><p><a href="http://staff.develop.com/richardb/weblog/">Rich</a>&nbsp;has written a shared memory wrapper for .NET. It looks pretty handy. Here's <a href="http://staff.develop.com/richardb/weblog/permalink.aspx/32c3abfb-bac9-4e19-bbc5-39ca338d906d">his description</a>:</p></div><blockquote dir="ltr"><p><em>I've created a wrapper for named shared memory that was part of a larger project. It basically allows serialized types and object graphs to be stored in and retrieved from shared memory (including as you'd expect cross process). Whether the larger project ever gets completed is another matter ;-). You can find the zip </em><a href="http://staff.develop.com/richardb/dotnet/sharedmemory.zip" title="http://staff.develop.com/richardb/dotnet/sharedmemory.zip"><em>here</em></a><em>.</em></p></blockquote></td></tr></tbody></table>

\[via [Craig](http://staff.develop.com/candera/weblog/)\]

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