Capture console exit C#

Question

I have a console application that contains quite a lot of threads. There are threads that monitor certain conditions and terminate the program if they are true. This termi

Answer 1

Visual Studio 2015 + Windows 10

• Allow for cleanup
• Single instance app
• Some goldplating

Code:

using System;
using System.Linq;
using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
using System.Threading;

namespace YourNamespace
{
    class Program
    {
        // if you want to allow only one instance otherwise remove the next line
        static Mutex mutex = new Mutex(false, "YOURGUID-YOURGUID-YOURGUID-YO");

        static ManualResetEvent run = new ManualResetEvent(true);

        [DllImport("Kernel32")]
        private static extern bool SetConsoleCtrlHandler(EventHandler handler, bool add);                
        private delegate bool EventHandler(CtrlType sig);
        static EventHandler exitHandler;
        enum CtrlType
        {
            CTRL_C_EVENT = 0,
            CTRL_BREAK_EVENT = 1,
            CTRL_CLOSE_EVENT = 2,
            CTRL_LOGOFF_EVENT = 5,
            CTRL_SHUTDOWN_EVENT = 6
        }
        private static bool ExitHandler(CtrlType sig)
        {
            Console.WriteLine("Shutting down: " + sig.ToString());            
            run.Reset();
            Thread.Sleep(2000);
            return false; // If the function handles the control signal, it should return TRUE. If it returns FALSE, the next handler function in the list of handlers for this process is used (from MSDN).
        }


        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            // if you want to allow only one instance otherwise remove the next 4 lines
            if (!mutex.WaitOne(TimeSpan.FromSeconds(2), false))
            {
                return; // singleton application already started
            }

            exitHandler += new EventHandler(ExitHandler);
            SetConsoleCtrlHandler(exitHandler, true);

            try
            {
                Console.BackgroundColor = ConsoleColor.Gray;
                Console.ForegroundColor = ConsoleColor.Black;
                Console.Clear();
                Console.SetBufferSize(Console.BufferWidth, 1024);

                Console.Title = "Your Console Title - XYZ";

                // start your threads here
                Thread thread1 = new Thread(new ThreadStart(ThreadFunc1));
                thread1.Start();

                Thread thread2 = new Thread(new ThreadStart(ThreadFunc2));
                thread2.IsBackground = true; // a background thread
                thread2.Start();

                while (run.WaitOne(0))
                {
                    Thread.Sleep(100);
                }

                // do thread syncs here signal them the end so they can clean up or use the manual reset event in them or abort them
                thread1.Abort();
            }
            catch (Exception ex)
            {
                Console.ForegroundColor = ConsoleColor.Red;
                Console.Write("fail: ");
                Console.ForegroundColor = ConsoleColor.Black;
                Console.WriteLine(ex.Message);
                if (ex.InnerException != null)
                {
                    Console.WriteLine("Inner: " + ex.InnerException.Message);
                }
            }
            finally
            {                
                // do app cleanup here

                // if you want to allow only one instance otherwise remove the next line
                mutex.ReleaseMutex();

                // remove this after testing
                Console.Beep(5000, 100);
            }
        }

        public static void ThreadFunc1()
        {
            Console.Write("> ");
            while ((line = Console.ReadLine()) != null)
            {
                if (line == "command 1")
                {

                }
                else if (line == "command 1")
                {

                }
                else if (line == "?")
                {

                }

                Console.Write("> ");
            }
        }


        public static void ThreadFunc2()
        {
            while (run.WaitOne(0))
            {
                Thread.Sleep(100);
            }

           // do thread cleanup here
            Console.Beep();         
        }

    }
}