Question

Is it possible, without employing pinvoke, to restart a PC using .NET?

I kind of just repeated the title, but I’m not too sure how to elaborate much further!

Edit:

I should have mentioned that don’t want to use “shutdown -r” as a solution.

I was really after a pure .NET way, something like:

Environment.ShutDown();

In other words, something that is maintained with .NET as new versions of Windows arise.

Edit 2:

Please stop asking “what’s wrong with p/invoke”. Those sort of answers are exactly what SO users seem to love; the supposed “lateral” approach to answering a question. However, although there is no real problem with p/invoke and I will happily use it, what on earth is wrong with asking if .NET has a more official way of achieving something? If it’s in .NET then any API changes between OSes will (most likely) get reflected. Whatever the reason, it’s not a crime to seek to minimise DLL import usage is it?

I’m sure if I included something in a question like:

[DllImport("something32.dll")]
static extern int ClimbWall32Ex(IntPtr32 blah);

And you could just do:

SomeNamespace.ClimbWall();

Everyone one here would scream: “what is wrong with using SomeNamespace.ClimbWall();??”

Sigh.

Answer 1

You need to call ExitWindowsEx which is only available through DllImport