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Asked: 2026-05-16T10:00:37+00:00

I am using C# to write a program that uses a web service from

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I am using C# to write a program that uses a web service from http://msrmaps.com, the problem is sometimes (seemingly at random) the site won’t work properly and will return a few different exceptions. Then on subsequent attempts to use the service I get the error over and over, then after a while (sometimes 30 minutes) the service starts working properly again. In order to avoid waiting for the service to work properly again, I usually just close my program and start it back up again. Usually that fixes the problem and I can continue to use the web service.

My question: Is it possible to restart my program within the program or better yet is there a way to somehow re-connect to the web service like the program does when I first run it?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Warning: This is a bit of a hack, but it works.

    I’m assuming your application is unattended, so a UI change alerting the user to the need to shut down and restart is not an option.

    We had a similar situation where the simplest resolution to a problem was to shut down and restart my app. (We’ll call this “App A”).

    What I wound up doing was writing a second executable (We’ll call it “App B”) as a console app that did two things.

    1. It used the System.Diagnostics.Process to kill any instance App A.
    2. Use System.Diagnostics.Process to re-launch App A after all instances were killed.

    Then in App A, I had a try/catch around the offending code, and when the error I was looking for came up, it would call App B.

    This was the only way I could find of killing a program and relaunching it. If anyone has a better solution, PLEASE post it and I’ll change my hack to use a better solution.

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