if wpf app is not responding, then auto restart

Question

I have a WPF application that occasionally crashes, and say \"not responding\". Is there a way to detect if the program is not responding? And if so, restart the WPF applica

Answer 1

You could use the Application Recovery & Restart Manager API, which was introduced in Windows Vista. This is an unmanaged (C) API, however there are managed wrappers available in the Windows API Code Pack.

This is a good feature to add to your application anyway, as it provides the user with a nicer experience if (when!) you application crashes. You can even write a callback that persists information about what the user was doing, and then restore that state when the application restarts.

The most basic use of the API would be to just add the following line somewhere in application startup:

ApplicationRestartRecoveryManager.RegisterForApplicationRestart( new RestartSettings( "restart", RestartRestrictions.None ) );