Resuscitate Your .NET Programs with the Application Recovery and Restart API

icrosoft has gone to great lengths to help you make your software applications more appealing to users. You can create rich user experiences with Windows Presentation Foundation, smooth web applications with ASP.NET AJAX, data friendly applications with LINQ, and much more. But when it comes to appeal, nothing beats an application that is always available and doesn't suffer from data loss or corruption. Microsoft's Application Recovery and Restart (ARR) API makes it easier than ever to add this level of appeal to your application. ARR gives you an opportunity to recover data and return to a consistent state when your application terminates or hangs, and it will optionally restart your application.

Application recovery is the process of saving and recovering the state of your application when it terminates unexpectedly or hangs. Application restart is the process of launching an application after it has terminated unexpectedly. The restart functionality in Application Recovery and Restart is independent of the recovery functionality, but the two complement each other well. You may recover an application without automatically restarting it, and you may automatically restart an application without recovering its data.