Class ResourceMutex

This protects your resources or application from running more than once Simplifies the usage of the Mutex class, as described here: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/System.Threading.Mutex.aspx

Inheritance

System.Object

ResourceMutex

Namespace:Dapplo.Addons.Bootstrapper

Assembly:Dapplo.Addons.Bootstrapper.dll

Syntax

public sealed class ResourceMutex : IDisposable

Properties

IsLocked

Test if the Mutex was created and locked.

Declaration

public bool IsLocked { get; set; }

Property Value

Type	Description
System.Boolean

Methods

Create(String, String, Boolean)

Create a ResourceMutex for the specified mutex id and resource-name

Declaration

public static ResourceMutex Create(string mutexId, string resourceName = null, bool global = false)

Parameters

Type	Name	Description
System.String	mutexId	ID of the mutex, preferably a Guid as string
System.String	resourceName	Name of the resource to lock, e.g your application name, usefull for logs
System.Boolean	global	true to have a global mutex see: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bwe34f1k.aspx

Returns

Type	Description
ResourceMutex

Dispose()

Dispose the application mutex

Declaration

public void Dispose()

Lock()

This tries to get the Mutex, which takes care of having multiple instances running

Declaration

public bool Lock()

Returns

Type	Description
System.Boolean	true if it worked, false if another instance is already running or something went wrong