title: remote procedure calls
body: <p>Does any one know a good way to do remote procedure calls in windows (non .net) environmental?</p>
  
  <p>I cant find much information on how to do it and the msdn only has the .net version.</p>
  
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  <p>Edit:</p>
  
  <p>Thanks for the answers so far. What i need it for is to communicate with a service on the same computer which will send progress reports back to the "client". The reason im intersted in rpc is because of vistas uac and how services cant talk to normal apps unless they use rpc or pipes. Looking into pipes, they seem to be entirely text based and i was under the impression that rpc can pass strongly typed values across.</p>
  
  <p>I will look into DCOM as well.</p>