How to create a Process that outlives its parent

Question

I\'m trying to launch an external updater application for a platform that I\'ve developed. The reason I\'d like to launch this updater is because my configuration utility w

Answer 1

It seems that the problem you are seeing has a different reason because the Process class will not kill any processes started using Process.Start when your application exits.

See this simple sample program, the calculator will stay open:

using System.Diagnostics;

class Program
{
    static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        Process.Start(@"C:\windows\system32\calc.exe");
    }
}