What is Memory-Mapped Files

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What is Memory-Mapped Files?

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Memory-mapped files (MMFs ) permits you to map the matter of file to logical address of the application. These files enable the multiple processes running on same machine to share data with one another. The MemoryMappedFile.CreateFromFile() method enables to obtain a Memory  Mapped File object that signifies a persisted memory-mapped file from a file on the disk.

These files are involved in the System.IO.MemoryMappedFiles namespace. This namespace comprises four classes and three enumerations which help you to access and secure your file mappings.