How to call win32 CreateMutex from .Net

Question

I\'ve been successfully creating a .net mutex like this: SingleIns = new Mutex(true, AppName); for a while. It works in XP, Vista, but apparently not in Windows7. So I nee

Answer 1

Should be as simple as:

private static System.Threading.Mutex _mutex = null;

const string guid = "{...GUID...}";
bool createdNew;

_mutex = new Mutex(true, guid, out createdNew);

if (!createdNew) {
    // it is in use already
}

system wide mutex creation - ownership: https://stackoverflow.com/a/3111740/1644202