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Automatically Starting Your Application on Windows Mobile

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31 Jul 2008CPOL10 min read 218.7K   2.4K   135  
An article discussing the various methods that you can use to automatically start an application on Windows Mobile, either by schedule or in reaction to a system event.
using System;
using System.Linq;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
using Win32;

namespace ShowCommandLine
{
    static class Program
    {
        /// <summary>
        /// The main entry point for the application.
        /// </summary>
        [MTAThread]
static void Main(string[] args)
{
    IntPtr eventHandle = IntPtr.Zero;
    const string ApplicationEventName = "ShowCommandLineEvent";  //We will use this as our handle to 
                                                                 //to ensure only one instance of the
                                                                 //program is started            
    try
    {
        //Try to create the event.  If the creation fails then it is 
        //because another instance of this application is already 
        //running. If another instance exists then this instance
        //should immediatly terminate.
        eventHandle = CoreDLL.CreateEvent(IntPtr.Zero, true, false, ApplicationEventName);
        int lastError = Marshal.GetLastWin32Error();
        //MessageBox.Show(String.Format("event handle {0}",eventHandle));
        
        if (0 == lastError)
        {
            Form1 form = new Form1();
            form.Args = args;
            Application.Run(form);
        }
    }
    finally
    {
        //When the application is no longer running it should release the event
        if (eventHandle != IntPtr.Zero)
            CoreDLL.CloseHandle(eventHandle);
    }
}
    }
}

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