Named Pipes in WCF are named but not by you (and how to find the actual windows object name)

If Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) implementation has its own idiosyncrasies, named pipes provider is the champion. First, let’s start with the name of the provider. Named Pipes in Windows can be used to communicate between process on the same machine or between different machines across a network. WCF only implements the on-machine part of it. Named Pipes name has the format \\ServeName\