When using Strataframe the required Startup Object is AppMain to that the database connections for the Business Objects can be established, and with that, you can't use the Visual Studio Option of Single Instance Application in the Application Properties.  So I was wondering what was the best way of handling this manually.

I spent a few minutes reading through some ways people have done this online, but it seems to boil down to searching through the processes and finding one that matches your form's Title or something such.  I ended writing a quick method that searches on the type of the form in the AppMain's InitApplication method.

Is this the best way to handle this ?  Also this doesn't currently allow the same application to be run by multiple users on the same system, ie users over Terminal Services etc.  I guess I would have to add another quick check for if the Owner of that Process is the current Application's process owner or some such.

I was just wanting to get some input from anyone who may have had to do this as well.

Thanks

Robin Giltner

Yep, that is it.

I go a bit further on my applications since I have a Licensing control based on licenses per machine. So I create the Mutex under a Global state, this way I can count the number of instances running even on various Terminal Service sessions.