Can a server initiate a connection with a client?

Hi all,

I have a weird situation here in that I've designed two C#
applications that need to communicate with each other using sockets.
So I am trying to set the applications up in a way that one acts like
the 'server' and the other a 'client'. However, the 'server' is an
application that does some work, and one if its jobs is to launch the
other application and start communicating with it when a user clicks a
certain button. The other application will then open up and begin
passing data back and forth with the 'server'. The problem is, how do
I get the SERVER to INITIATE communication with a CLIENT instead of
waiting for a connection the way servers traditionally do?

Any ideas how I could approach this problem? Thanks!

~ M

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