Any ideas how to stop the user opening an app more than once? So there is not
more than one instance running at the same time.
Thanks.
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James,
See my response in this thread for information on the
WindowsApplicat ionBase class, which you can use to do this: http://groups.google.com/group/micro...2d86fcc6e071fe
There is also a solution there for .NET 1.1 and before as well.
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- Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]
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"James L" <Ja****@discuss ions.microsoft. com> wrote in message
news:08******** *************** ***********@mic rosoft.com... Any ideas how to stop the user opening an app more than once? So there is
not
more than one instance running at the same time.
Thanks.
You can also look at my article at http://www.dalepreston.com/Blog/2005...-run-once.html for an
alternative method that will send any command line arguments on the second
instance to the first instance before shutting down the second instance.
There's one more good solution I'd like to suggest but I can't find it. It
is from a regular on the groups that has a site with a great Graphics
namespace help too. I can't find the site but if you can, his solution is
very simple if you don't need to do the message passing that my solution does.
HTH
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Dale Preston
MCAD C#
MCSE, MCDBA
"James L" wrote: Any ideas how to stop the user opening an app more than once? So there is not
more than one instance running at the same time.
Thanks.
"James L" <Ja****@discuss ions.microsoft. com> wrote in message
news:08******** *************** ***********@mic rosoft.com... Any ideas how to stop the user opening an app more than once? So there is
not
more than one instance running at the same time.
In v1.x I used to do this with a Mutex object. I've not looked at how to do
this in v2 yet, but I believe your question has already been answered by
Nicholas and Dale.
Occasionally, just occasionally, I sometimes yearn for VB's simplicity...
App.PrevInstanc e was a classic, wasn't it...? :-)
Actually, I started using the Mutex method in VB apps years ago because
App.PreviousIns tance was not reliable. It was common for applications to be
able to be run twice because of timing issues.
My original inspiration for the Mutex method was an article on mvps.org
years ago that described more technical details of what caused the problems
when using App.PreviousIns tance. I don't remember that far back too clearly
and the site has changed formats so the old information isn't there anymore.
--
Dale Preston
MCAD C#
MCSE, MCDBA
"Mark Rae" wrote: "James L" <Ja****@discuss ions.microsoft. com> wrote in message
news:08******** *************** ***********@mic rosoft.com...
Any ideas how to stop the user opening an app more than once? So there is
not
more than one instance running at the same time.
In v1.x I used to do this with a Mutex object. I've not looked at how to do
this in v2 yet, but I believe your question has already been answered by
Nicholas and Dale.
Occasionally, just occasionally, I sometimes yearn for VB's simplicity...
App.PrevInstanc e was a classic, wasn't it...? :-)
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