http://ayende.comAyende @ RahienCopyright (C) Ayende Rahien 2004 - 2021 (c) 202660Thanks for the good laugh this morning. http://ayende.com/3405/things-you-should-never-do#comment14http://ayende.com/3405/things-you-should-never-do#comment14Mon, 07 Jul 2008 16:08:03 GMT@[ICR] Running the same app multiple times isn't all of the problem. Even if each app merely started-up, launched the other program, and died, you'd still have a tremendous strain on the system, even though at any given time, only one instance of each program is in memory. (And stopping the cycle would probably require rebooting). http://ayende.com/3405/things-you-should-never-do#comment13http://ayende.com/3405/things-you-should-never-do#comment13Mon, 07 Jul 2008 14:24:29 GMTthanks http://ayende.com/3405/things-you-should-never-do#comment12http://ayende.com/3405/things-you-should-never-do#comment12Mon, 07 Jul 2008 07:26:39 GMTMultiple Startup projects: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms165413.aspx http://ayende.com/3405/things-you-should-never-do#comment11http://ayende.com/3405/things-you-should-never-do#comment11Mon, 07 Jul 2008 07:11:33 GMTMartin, I didn't know that, how? http://ayende.com/3405/things-you-should-never-do#comment10http://ayende.com/3405/things-you-should-never-do#comment10Mon, 07 Jul 2008 04:44:42 GMTYou can set multiple startup projects in VS if this is how you are testing http://ayende.com/3405/things-you-should-never-do#comment9http://ayende.com/3405/things-you-should-never-do#comment9Mon, 07 Jul 2008 04:40:34 GMTAgain, this is test code http://ayende.com/3405/things-you-should-never-do#comment8http://ayende.com/3405/things-you-should-never-do#comment8Sun, 06 Jul 2008 20:57:10 GMTIsn't a Server starting its Client something like a tail wagging the dog? http://ayende.com/3405/things-you-should-never-do#comment7http://ayende.com/3405/things-you-should-never-do#comment7Sun, 06 Jul 2008 17:07:55 GMTDid you try to run at least one of them?... http://ayende.com/3405/things-you-should-never-do#comment6http://ayende.com/3405/things-you-should-never-do#comment6Sun, 06 Jul 2008 12:47:23 GMTThat's assuming of course that duplication is allowed. It could be modified to only allow once instance of each to be running. http://ayende.com/3405/things-you-should-never-do#comment5http://ayende.com/3405/things-you-should-never-do#comment5Sun, 06 Jul 2008 11:56:07 GMTSung, I am posting posts that _should_ make you think. At the very least, they should spark some conversation. The main issue is that this will create more and more processes. The problem with that is that there is no easy way to stop them. At worst, this can make the OS unresponsive and require a forced shutdown to fix http://ayende.com/3405/things-you-should-never-do#comment4http://ayende.com/3405/things-you-should-never-do#comment4Sun, 06 Jul 2008 03:55:33 GMTActually, the recursive was what I referred The hard coding is fine, those are test programs. http://ayende.com/3405/things-you-should-never-do#comment3http://ayende.com/3405/things-you-should-never-do#comment3Sun, 06 Jul 2008 03:13:06 GMTI didn't notice right away why you should "never" do such a thing until i read James' comment. Would you please be more specific in your post? Please "Don't Make Me Think" (borrowed from a book-title) ;) By the way, I can only "assume" that one should not write such code because it will create an infinite loop. But are there any reason that you think why nobody should write such a code? http://ayende.com/3405/things-you-should-never-do#comment2http://ayende.com/3405/things-you-should-never-do#comment2Sun, 06 Jul 2008 02:24:02 GMTWow.... There's a whole bunch of things not to do there. There's the obvious infinite loop to launching programs. Then there's hard-coding a complex relative path, and hard-coding a reference to a (debug) developement folder. http://ayende.com/3405/things-you-should-never-do#comment1http://ayende.com/3405/things-you-should-never-do#comment1Sun, 06 Jul 2008 02:02:36 GMT