[RESOLVED] Check if this is the last instance of an appliction on closing.

[Dnereb]

To close a independend application (a Chat program)
I need to know if my application is the last instance of this application running on a system.
I can of course iterate through all proccesses, but I was hoping there would be a simpler way to achive this task.

Using Counters to keep track of the number of instances is not a way 'I want to go, for it would flaw on a crash of any instance.

A mutex would be a problem if the first instance is closed first...

Does anyone know a simple straightforward solution to this problem?

Thanks in advance,

[jmcilhinney]

If Process.GetProcessesByName("process name here").Length = 1 Then
    'This is the last instance.
End If

[Dnereb]

Thx,

I will look into this concept tommorrow

See Ya!

Dnereb