Reloading/Restarting Software

Sorry, I misread your starting post :(

For some reason, I thought you wanted to kill an external process that you were controlling from your C# program and then restart it again.

The batch file approach is probably the cleanest way to destroy and restart the current program so I'd stick with that.
 

Thanks for the reply. I forgot I could just use "EXIT" in a .bat file to close the cmd window *slaps self* been a while since I've worked with batch file. So it's working how I wanted it to now...

About your suggested method, can that actually work in my C# program though? What I mean is...if the process I'm running kills itself how does it start back up? Won't it stop executing and never get to that block of code? That's why I thought I had to use the .bat method.

Rather than use a batch file, I'd just use Process.Kill() to kill the process and then Process.Start() to restart it. For example, start up Wordpad and then run this program:

using System;
using System.Diagnostics;
using System.Threading;

class Test
{
     static void Main()
     {
        Process[] procs = Process.GetProcessesByName("wordpad");
        procs[0].Kill();
        Thread.Sleep(5000); // wait 5 secs       
        Process.Start("wordpad.exe");        
     }
}

Ok so I think I can do it like this...
On my condition that I need to reload the program I execute:

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System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(@"C:\reload_myprogram.bat");

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In my batch file I have:

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TASKKILL /F /T /IM MyProgram.exe

SET INJDIR=C:\MyDir

START %INJDIR%\MyProgram.exe

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The only problem I have with this is the program runs through cmd prompt, and when I kill the process the cmd prompt stays open. I'll keep searching...any help would be greatly appreciated.