What's the best way to watchdog a desktop application?

Question

I need some way to monitor a desktop application and restart it if it dies.

Initially I assumed the best way would be to monitor/restart the process from a Windows

Answer 1

Initially I assumed the best way would be to monitor/restart the process from a Windows service...

Sure you can! I did it some times ago. You can start learning how watching this:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7trainingcourse_win7session0isolation_topic2#_Toc243675529

and this:

http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/18367/Launch-your-application-in-Vista-under-the-local-s

In substance, you have to run programs as SYSTEM, but with the SessionID of the current user.

If you're feeling lazy, I suppose there could be some good little Services which make the thing you're looking for. Try searching on www.codeproject.com.