Restart the windows application every 2 mins

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I have an application installed in my system which is developed using windows forms. Every 2 mins the application should exit and start. Can anyone please help me with the sample code

Posted 6-Jan-11 1:00am

pdmkosireddi

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jerrykid · Accepted Answer · 2011-01-06T01:19:00

Try this code:

C#

private Timer timer;
private int count;
private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    count = 0;
    timer = new Timer();
    timer.Interval = 1000;//1 second for tick
    timer.Tick += new EventHandler(timer_Tick);
    timer.Start();
}
void timer_Tick(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    count++;
    if (count == 120)//2 minutes to restart application
    {
        count = 0;
        timer.Stop();
        Application.Restart();
    }
}

#realJSOP · Accepted Answer · 2011-01-06T01:26:00

Solution 4

Why does it have to restart? Why can't you just reintitialize everything every two minutes (including loading and data files that might be part of the program's initialization?

EDIT ===============

If you don't present ALL of the requirements in your question, you won't get a proper answer right away.

If your app is spawning the apps from a central program, you don't need a timer - all you need to do is respond to the appropriate Process object event that indicates when a spawned process terminates. At that time, you can restart it.

Posted 6-Jan-11 1:26am

#realJSOP

Updated 6-Jan-11 7:23am

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Espen Harlinn 6-Jan-11 7:27am

5+ Agree

pdmkosireddi 6-Jan-11 7:45am

In this application load event I am starting other applications if they are not running. so every 2 mins this application should make sure all those are runnung. For that purpose what is the best solution...Please suggest..Initialisation ir restart?

jerrykid 6-Jan-11 8:25am

I don't agree,
If windows application have many forms which are MDI children of the main form, an all of them are in Japanese language, but user select English language, and now how can we reinitialize resources???

#realJSOP 6-Jan-11 8:40am

@jerrykid - A properly designed application wouldn't have these concerns.

Pete O'Hanlon 6-Jan-11 8:48am

@jerrykid - if this is an issue, your application can easily hook into the windows messages that indicate that the current culture has changed.

jerrykid 6-Jan-11 8:55am

@ John Simmons - That's related to another requirement about software designer. But, I think you are not central to the question of member. You lead him to another way and thinking much more, it can make him redesign his application :)

jerrykid 6-Jan-11 8:57am

@Pete O'Hanlon - I don't mean to change culture of PC. I mean about multi-languages application :)

wizardzz 6-Jan-11 10:27am

@pdm, I would just do what John recommended. No point in exiting and restarting

@jerry, if a redesign means a better design, it's probably worth it.

Abhinav S · Accepted Answer · 2011-01-06T01:03:00

Solution 1

The simplesst way could be to have another application running all the time and have it restart and close the first one every few (two) minutes.

However, if you intend to run an application that needs to restart after a small interval you might want to consider windows services.

Posted 6-Jan-11 1:03am

Abhinav S

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Venkatesh Mookkan 6-Jan-11 7:06am

As Abhinav said, I would as suggest the later option only. Good Answer Abhinav

Espen Harlinn 6-Jan-11 7:10am

Go with the later option - restarting every 2 mins seems like a crappy way to do things ... I know I wouldn't like such a solution in my environment

JF2015 6-Jan-11 7:20am

Good that you showed the OP how he should approach the problem in a prefered way. Have my 5+

Rajesh Anuhya 6-Jan-11 7:27am

Good answer

**JF2015** · Accepted Answer · 2011-01-06T01:19:00

Solution 2

Hi,

Abhinav posted the perfect solution using a service. If you don't want to go that way you could setup a 2 minute timer and then use the Application.Restart method as described here:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.application.restart.aspx[^]

Posted 6-Jan-11 1:19am

JF2015

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jerrykid 6-Jan-11 8:26am

good, 5+

Manfred Rudolf Bihy 6-Jan-11 14:19pm

Good call! 5+

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