Preventing multiple instances of an application from running at the same time is a common requirement, especially for business software. By limiting to a single instance of an application per machine, the task of managing network connections, local and remote resources, client sessions and licensing requirements is greatly simplified. An additional advantage is that it… Continue reading

Background I’m currently doing some work in the area of cross-AppDomain development, where all objects are either marshalled (transparently) using .NET Remoting or serialised. It turns out that, when DataSet objects are serialised, their extended properties are serialised as strings. This means that, when operating on a DataSet which has come from another AppDomain, the… Continue reading