# System.IO.Pipes
This assembly provides support for interprocess communication through anonymous and/or named pipes. The primary types in this assembly are [AnonymousPipeClientStream](https://learn.microsoft.com/dotnet/api/system.io.pipes.anonymouspipeclientstream), [AnonymousPipeServerStream](https://learn.microsoft.com/dotnet/api/system.io.pipes.anonymouspipeserverstream), [NamedPipeClientStream](https://learn.microsoft.com/dotnet/api/system.io.pipes.namedpipeclientstream), and [NamedPipeServerStream](https://learn.microsoft.com/dotnet/api/system.io.pipes.namedpipeserverstream).

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## Deployment
The System.IO.Pipes assembly is part of the shared framework, and ships with every new release of .NET.
