Hi

I would like to implement a Systemwide singleton in .net. Is it sensible to
use a mutex for this? The application only can be run by one user at the
time.  Does anyone have any articles/samples that can help me with this
problem?

thanks

N

Hello Nick,

Seems that u mix it up a liitle bit
Singleton allows you to create only one instance of the specific class: http://dofactory.com/Patterns/PatternSingleton.aspx
If you want to have to start the single copy of the application you need
to use global mutex:  http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.threading.mutex.aspx

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NC> would like to implement a Systemwide singleton in .net. Is it
NC> sensible to use a mutex for this? The application only can be run by
NC> one user at the time. Does anyone have any articles/samples that can
NC> help me with this problem?
NC>

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