Restart application on unhandled exception

Question

Is it possible to have a program restart automatically if it crashes?

Something like:

1. An unhandled exception is thrown.
2. Release all resources

Answer 1

Let Windows be your watchdog. You can call ChangeServiceConfig2 to set the failure actions for your service. (If your server isn't a service, then you're doing it wrong.) Specify SERVICE_CONFIG_FAILURE_ACTIONS for the dwInfoLevel parameter, and in the SERVICE_FAILURE_ACTIONS structure, set lpsaActions to an array of one or more SC_ACTION values. The type you want is SC_ACTION_RESTART.