Application doesnt exist in C# console and I want to restart the console

Question

I have made a hangman game, and I want to be able to restart it after you've won/lost, rather than having to restart the program manually every time.

I saw on the internet 'Application' which can be used to restart the console. However, it says that Application doesnt exist.

 Close();
 System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(Application.ExecutablePath);

Please help me!

Answer 1

You can find it over here :

You need to include the System.Windows.Forms assembly and add a using

using System.Windows.Forms

But for Console apps I would prefer to use this (when in your Console assembly):

System.Reflection.Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().Location

Like Andre said as comment, you'd even better use Assembly.GetEntryAssembly() since it gets the first assembly that is called (which is of course the executable in console applications)

And of couse, like the previous answer which is removed already, first reopen, and then close the application.

Answer 2

I don't think you really need to restart your console application to restart your game. Here is a possible game restarting scenario which can be used:

class Program
{
    static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        Game game = new Game();

        Menu menu = new Menu(game);

        game.Finished += menu.AskAndRun;

        menu.Welcome();
    }
}

class Menu
{
    public readonly IRunnable runnable;

    public Menu(IRunnable runnable)
    {
        this.runnable = runnable;
    }

    public void Welcome()
    {
        Console.WriteLine("Welcome, Player!");

        AskAndRun();
    }

    public void AskAndRun()
    {
        Console.WriteLine("\nTo play a new game, press [ENTER]");

        Console.ReadLine();

        Console.Clear();

        runnable.Run();
    }
}

interface IRunnable
{
    void Run();
}

class Game : IRunnable
{
    public event Action Finished;

    public void Run()
    {
        Console.WriteLine("Game started here...");

        Console.WriteLine("Oops! Game finished already");

        if (Finished != null)
        {
            Finished();
        }
    }
}

As you can see, the Game class was separated from the restarting logic which now handled by Menu class. Now it is trivial to introduce new features like exiting and counting number of started games.

Pay attention to the fact that Menu doesn't depend on Game . It depends on IRunnable and this will help you in changing the Game , testing Menu and introducing new features painlessly.