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C# Application.Restart() does not restarting the application...

Hi,

I wrote the C# application and i want it to restart is from scratch if some conditions satiesfied. I can see that even if calling to Application.Restart() function, the following activities are continues and i has to exit the execution instance of the application. Is this a expected behavior? I dont think so it should terminate the current instance and start immediately new instance of an applicatiion.

Code:
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line#1;
line#2;
..........
Application.Restart();
.....Still comming here and doing the task....I have to write Environment.Exit(1) to exit the current instance...
............

Could any one please suggests me what wrong is here,

Thnaks,

Alexandre Simões

My advise for doing this is to start a new process and right after end the current.

To do this write something like the attached code.

			System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(Application.ExecutablePath);
			Application.Exit();

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Alexandre Simões

Just to prevent that any code executes after the exit instruction add a Return right after.

System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(Application.ExecutablePath);
Application.Exit();
return;

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MuhammadAdil

Its execute all block in which you are using Application.Restart(). After executing it, application call dispose method. And start your application. In which event you are calling Application.Restart(), there should not any code after this call in that block.

Regards,
Adil Fazal

deshaw

ASKER

If there should not be any code after that block then what is the use of Application.Restart()? What if my current function from where i am executing Application.Restart has been called from some function?

>>System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(Application.ExecutablePath);
>>Application.Exit();

I know this but then there is no point to have Application.Restart function. This means start and restart are the same functions. :-)

Thanks,

Alexandre Simões

If you know you want to restart your application, so you just have to isolate that code inside a IF or something and call return; right after the Restart statement.

Something like:

if (IsToRestart)
{
Application.Restart();
Return;
}
... nothing more is executed...

The act of restarting an application must be well designed, you must know exactly what will be executed after the method is called.

"What if my current function from where i am executing Application.Restart has been called from some function?"
Set a return value on that function that executes the Application.Restart so that on the caller function you know that a Restart is being performed.

	public void DoSomeStuff()
	{
		// some code to do whatever you need
 
		if (RestartMyApp()) return;
 
		// some code to do whatever you need
	}
 
	public bool RestartMyApp()
	{
		// some code to do whatever you need
 
		if (IsToRestart)
		{
			Application.Restart();
			return;
		}
 
		// some code to do whatever you need
	}

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Alexandre Simões

Sorry mate, the RestartMyApp() function was wrong, here is the correction.

Sorry.

	public void DoSomeStuff()
	{
		// some code to do whatever you need
 
		if (RestartMyApp()) return;
 
		// some code to do whatever you need
	}
 
	public bool RestartMyApp()
	{
		// some code to do whatever you need
 
		if (1 == 1)
		{
			Application.Restart();
			return true;
		}
 
		// some code to do whatever you need
 
		return false;
	}

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