TcpListener - address in use

[haddaway]

I have an application which listens to a port. I have no problem connecting to it. When I close the application the address is free for use again. In one case the address is in use - it's when I have started a process (system.diagnostics) somewhere in the application and that process is still running. When I have done so, the tcplistener is not shutdown properly and the address is taken.

How can I force a shutdown of the tcplistener? Right now I am doing this but it does not help:

If Not listener Is Nothing Then
listener.Server.Close()
listener.Stop()
End If

 

[jebenson]

Shutdown the System.Diagnostics process before you shut down the TCPListener.


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[haddaway]

Is there some other way? Why must the TcpListener be connected to a process. I would like to have the process still there but just shut down the listener.