How to detect that your app is already running?

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Roy - 20 Jan 2005 20:07 GMT

Is there a way for an application distributed via No Touch Deployment (ie
launch via http://some.domain.com/myApp.exe) to detect an existing instance
of itself already running on the client?

thanks for any help

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Jim Rand - 20 Jan 2005 21:09 GMT

Try a mutex. If you can't get one, an existing instance is running.
_mutex = new Mutex(true, "yourapp", out _ownsMutex);

if (_ownsMutex)

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> Is there a way for an application distributed via No Touch Deployment (ie
> launch via http://some.domain.com/myApp.exe) to detect an existing instance
> of itself already running on the client?
>
> thanks for any help

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