Named Pipes from a console application

I am attempting to use rllibby's "Pipes" component in a console application. Everything works great when I create a VCL "client" app and a VCL "server" app. The 2 apps are quite simple, and simply send messages back and forth from exe to exe.

I attempted to rewrite the VCL client app as a console application and am now stuck. The code appears to me to be essentially the same, and when I step through with the debugger I see that the client is connecting and it is supposedly writing to the pipe (true is returned). However, nothing ever shows up in my server VCL app. But, if I launch the client VCL version and send a message, everything is great. Here is the code I am using in my console application. The pipe is named "myNamedPipe", and the VCL server app is launched first and actually activates the pipe before I run the client:

/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
//start of code
program CmdClient;

{$APPTYPE CONSOLE}

uses
  SysUtils,
  Pipes;

var
  wideChars   : array[0..255] of WideChar;
  myString    : String;
  bSuccess01, bSuccess02     : Boolean;
  iLength : integer;
  PipeClient1 : TPipeClient;
begin

  PipeClient1 := TPipeClient.Create(nil);
  try
    begin
      with PipeClient1 do
        begin
          Name := 'myNamedPipe';
          PipeName := 'myNamedPipe';
          ServerName := '.';
          //OnPipeMessage := PipeClient1PipeMessage;
        end;

      myString := 'the message I am sending';
      iLength := Length(myString)+1;

      StringToWideChar(myString,
        wideChars,
        iLength);

      bSuccess01 := PipeClient1.Connect(5000);
      WriteLn('Success: ' + BoolToStr(bSuccess01));

      bSuccess02 := PipeClient1.Write(wideChars,iLength*2);
      WriteLn('s2: ' + BoolToStr(bSuccess02));
    end;
  finally
    FreeAndNil(PipeClient1);
  end;
 
end.
// end of code
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

This is a bit outside the scope of the original question, but I'll ask anyway. I'd also like to be able to use the OnPipeMessage event in my console application, but I haven't found a way to do it from a console app. Is it possible to use this event from a console application?

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