Restart my application

Saravanan Ponnusamy

i have a winform application, which will work with TCPListener. it is working fine.

In TCPListener i need to send back success message once my application complete the process.

but some times, rare condition, my application got stuck, so i cant send success message back to TCPListener.

so i have plan, im going create a icon in desktop, when user double clicked on it the application should restart. it should get killed itself and needs to restart.

i googled it, some says to use Application.restart(). but where and how to use in my application.

thanks in advance.

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Amit Gupta6y ago
If your application got stuck (not responding) then Application.Restart() won't help you with that because it doesn't allow you to call that.

To overcome with the race condition, I prefer you to use proper threading in your application, in the worst case, if it is still got hanged then write the below 2 lines and save it as RestartApp.bat

tskill notepad
notepad.exe

//replace notepad with your application full path, when you open that bat file it will kill the application and starts again
tskill is a command that kills your application

Good Luck
Rajanikant Hawaldar6y ago
Hello saravanan,
Below is the right way of restarting winform application, we have attach Anonymous method to ApplicationExit event handler so after exit the application only restarts application so there is intrupts. i have created sample window application WinformApplicationRestartApp
Application.ApplicationExit += (s, e) =>
{
    System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(Application.StartupPath + "WindowApplicationRestartApp.exe");
};
Application.Exit();
Sachin Singh6y ago
Add namespace System.Diagnostic
Process.Start(Application.ResourceAssembly.Location);
Application.Current.Shutdown();