Process Kill

[lothos12345]

i have written a visual basic.net 2003 application and upon it closing I want it to kill all instances of the application that are running, so I used the code below

Dim proc() as Process
proc = Process.GetProcessesByName("AppName")

For Each SingleProcess as Process in Proc
SingleProcess.Kill
Next


The above code works generally well but there are occasions when it will not close all instances of the application and I am not sure why. If anyone can shed some light as to the reason, it would be greatly appreiciated.

Thanks

 

[Catadmin]

Do you use a transactional rollback function in your code? It could be when you're killing it, it senses that a transaction hasn't finished so the program doesn't close that process out because it's trying to rollback the changes.

If this thought sounds strange, just know that I'm a DBA and we always think in terms of transactions (changing data).


Catadmin - MCDBA, MCSA
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[techsmith]

I have a similar problem and haven't got to the bottom of it yet, but here are a few ways to close an application - don't know pros and cons of these - maybe someone else can shed some light on differences and when to use each one:

1.Process.Kill()
2.Environment.Exit(0)
3.Process.CloseMainWindow()

I makes sure the application is active before trying Environment.Exit(0) - can't remember why just now, but may be important.