Restart my application

Question

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.

Amit Gupta · Answer

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 Hawaldar · Answer

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 Singh · Answer

Add namespace System.Diagnostic Process.Start(Application.ResourceAssembly.Location); Application.Current.Shutdown();