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WPF – How to restart my application?

Unfortunately, to date, WPF does not have a Restart() function line in WinForms so one way to do this is by using…WinForms.

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      System.Windows.Forms.Application.Restart();

However, after running this code our application will not exit on it’s own, even though a new instance of the application is being created. Therefore, we must close it manually…for example by doing:

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      Application.Current.Shutdown();

If you don’t want to use WinForms with your application you can do something like:

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     //things to do before closing
     // ...
     //Restart
      System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(Application.ResourceAssembly.Location);
      Application.Current.Shutdown();

Where we create a new instance of our application, by using Process.Start, and immediately close the current one.