Hi,

I have a windows application that updates somedata every 10 mins. I need to make sure that this application keeps running.
I was thinking of having a service with a timer that checks if the application is running and if not it fires it up.

Can you help me out with this.

Why your application may not be running, ?

In case somebody close it ?

You can make an application impossible to close

Simply like that:

That's a good suggestion. i will include it in my code. Thanks

But I had in mind of using a service because the application will be running on a server. So i needed that even if a user is not logged on the machine...the application would be started off by the service automatically....especially when a restart to the server would have been done remotely or so....

Thank you Crazypennie for your friendly help and good suggestion.

Hi Alex,

Welcometo MSDN forums!

Here is code sample: How to create a Windows Service and check if specified application has been run via Timer object in VB.NET.

Public Class Service1 Private Timer1 As System.Timers.Timer Protected Overrides Sub OnStart(ByVal args() As String) Timer1 = New System.Timers.Timer() AddHandler Timer1.Elapsed, AddressOf Timer_Elapsed Timer1.Interval = 1000 Timer1.Start() End Sub Protected Overrides Sub OnStop() Timer1.Stop() End Sub Private Sub Timer_Elapsed(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Timers.ElapsedEventArgs) 'Check if your application has been run. Dim proeslist As Process() = Process.GetProcessesByName("ApplicationName") If proeslist.Count = 0 Then Process.Start("D:\AppFolder\AppName.exe") ' Here start your application End If ' Additionally, you can check each process'title and name like this: Dim pro As Process For Each pro In proeslist Dim winTitle As String = pro.MainWindowTitle Dim pName As String = pro.ProcessName Next End Sub End Class

Best regards,
Martin Xie

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Hi Martin,

Thanks for your reply.

I managed to put the service at work. In fact the application is started but after a while it closes itself down again.

Am i missing something. When i run the application standalone it works fine.

I am also getting an errorevent in the application when the application is shutdown on it's own.

Event Type:Error
Event Source:.NET Runtime 2.0 Error Reporting
Event Category:None
Event ID:5000
Date:03/11/2009
Time:16:49:16
User:N/A
Computer:OMEGA
Description:
EventType clr20r3, P1 kreaschedule.exe, P2 1.0.54.0, P3 4af04f0a, P4 kreaschedule, P5 1.0.54.0, P6 4af04f0a, P7 e, P8 e9, P9 system.invalidoperationexception, P10 NIL.