Class SingleApplicationGuard

Namespace

Loehnert.Lisrt

Assembly

Loehnert.Lisrt.dll

Represents a guard to prevent multiple instances of the application from running. To enable the guard, add an entry with key 'IsSingleInstanceApplication' and value 'true' to the 'app.config' file. When it is enabled, a second instance of the application will be closed and the first will be brought to the foreground.

[Export(typeof(IGuardApplicationStart))]
public class SingleApplicationGuard : IGuardApplicationStart

Inheritance

object

SingleApplicationGuard

Implements

IGuardApplicationStart

Inherited Members

object.ToString()

object.Equals(object)

object.Equals(object, object)

object.ReferenceEquals(object, object)

object.GetHashCode()

object.GetType()

object.MemberwiseClone()

Examples

To run LisRT as single instance application, set the IsSingleInstanceApplication value in the app.config file to true:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<configuration>
  <appSettings>
    <add key="IsSingleInstanceApplication" value="true"/>
  </appSettings>
</configuration>

Constructors

SingleApplicationGuard()

Initializes a new instance of the SingleApplicationGuard class.

public SingleApplicationGuard()

Fields

AppSettingsKey

Application settings key to enable LisRT as single instance application.

public const string AppSettingsKey = "IsSingleInstanceApplication"

Field Value

string

Methods

CanStartApplication()

Gets a value indicating whether a new instance can be started.

public bool CanStartApplication()

Returns

bool

True, if the application can start.

OnApplicationCannotStart()

Shows the already running instance, and exits the current instance.

public void OnApplicationCannotStart()