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The following files are provided to allow .NET use: AutoItX3.Assembly.dll - The .NET Assembly for using AutoItX.AutoItX3.Assembly.xml - The Visual Studio Intellisense help file for the .NET Assembly.AutoItX3.dll - The main AutoItX DLL (x86)AutoItX3_x64.dll - The main AutoItX DLL (x64)Using the Assembly from VB/C# within in Visual Studio is very easy: Add a reference to AutoItX3.Assembly.dll to your projectAdd a using AutoIt; statement in the files you want to use AutoIt functionsWrite code like this C# example:using AutoIt; ... // Wow, this is C#! AutoItX.Run("notepad.exe"); AutoItX.WinWaitActive("Untitled"); AutoItX.Send("I'm in notepad"); IntPtr winHandle = AutoItX.WinGetHandle("Untitled"); AutoItX.WinKill(winHandle);Distribute your final executable with the files AutoItX3.Assembly.dll, AutoItX3.dll, AutoItX3_x64.dll.

This way of communication between processes very much resemble to the communication we do with our mail accounts. I would guess (smartly, no doubt) that was the key factor used for naming the functions when they were created. Information about mailslots can be found on microsoft's site, link. Summary could be that datagrams are used for communication and it's one-way and asynchronous. Attached zip file contains MailSlot.au3, AutoIt's implementation of these functions. Also there would be two scripts in there MailSlot_Sender.au3 and MailSlot_Reciever.au3. Both scripts are demos of the mailslot mechanism. Start both and use former to send mails to latter. Examples are basic and should show what's this about. MailSlot.zip Available functions are alphabetically: _MailSlotCheckForNextMessage_MailSlotClose_MailSlotCreate_MailSlotGetMessageCount_MailSlotGetTimeout_MailSlotSetTimeout_MailSlotRead_MailSlotWriteedit: New attachment. _MailSlotGetTimeout() function added to MailSlot.au3.

I have updated to the latest version of autoit and it works correctly, thank you

Why not just write the parser in Autoit? Oh, right... never mind

Beware you don't automate yourself out of a job! Bread on the table is always more important than a nice layout on a financial report.