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This article demonstrates a quick and easy-to-use implementation for cross-AppDomain communication in .NET by leveraging Windows native messaging. The XDMessaging library is based on code developed to aid rapid development for a recent Vista project that required a lot of cross-AppDomain communication in a locked-down environment. It proved to be extremely useful in a number of scenarios where .NET Remoting would have been impractical, if not impossible, and actually solved more problems than I could have imagined due to its simplicity. The library is intended to send messages between multiple applications in a same-box scenario. For example, a task-tray application might want to communicate with or monitor a separate desktop application. The library does not implement cross-domain communication across a network, for which case .NET Remoting is sufficient.