Question

Is there any way to make a program stop and exit the program when it crashes? I am using C# to develop the program and machines it is run on are 32 bit Windows 7 Professional machines.

So, for example, when my X.exe crashes, a little pop-up window with 2 options come up:
1 – Look for solutions online.
2 – Stop X.exe

I want the second option to be automatically selected and my program is stopped. I have another program that monitors X.exe so when X.exe is stopped, it will start a new instance of X.exe.

Answer 1

You can add a global exception handler for unhandled exceptions. This handler is always called when your program did not handle an exception during runtime which will cause the programm to crash:

In Wpf-Applications you can add the handler like this:

App.Current.DispatcherUnhandledException += new System.Windows.Threading.DispatcherUnhandledExceptionEventHandler( Current_DispatcherUnhandledException );

The same for WinForms:

System.Windows.Forms.Application.ThreadException += new ThreadExceptionEventHandler( OnThreadException );

And for console applications:

System.AppDomain.CurrentDomain.UnhandledException += new UnhandledExceptionEventHandler( OnUnhandledException );