Restart with Avalonia

Automatic restarting does not work with Avalonia Applications. It is probably because I don’t have a .exe file. In order to start it again it would need to do dotnet MyApp.dll It would be nice to have an option to support this.

[HendrikMennen]

Otherwise it works very well even on Linux. Just had to remove the “Onova works only on Windows warning”, make it target .Net Standard 2.0 and change a little bit to make restarting work there too 💯 . Very nice and simple updater.

[HendrikMennen]

Line 45 - 73 in Updater - > Program.cs

var startInfo = new ProcessStartInfo
                {
                    WorkingDirectory = updateeDirPath
                };

                // If updatee is an .exe file - start it directly
                if (string.Equals(Path.GetExtension(updateeFilePath), ".exe", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase))
                {
                    startInfo.FileName = updateeFilePath;
                }
                // If not - figure out what to do with it
                else
                {
                    // If there's an .exe file with same name - start it instead
                    // Security vulnerability?
                    if (File.Exists(Path.ChangeExtension(updateeFilePath, ".exe")))
                    {
                        startInfo.FileName = Path.ChangeExtension(updateeFilePath, ".exe");
                    }
                    // Otherwise - start the updatee using dotnet SDK
                    else
                    {
                        startInfo.FileName = "dotnet";
                        startInfo.Arguments = updateeFilePath;
                    }
                }

                using (var restartedUpdateeProcess = Process.Start(updateeFilePath))
                    WriteLog($"Restarted as pid:{restartedUpdateeProcess?.Id}.");

You start the process there without using startInfo you created before.

Change

Process.Start(updateeFilePath)

to

Process.Start(startInfo)

And it works 😃