task manager, app doesn't unload

[ray well]

on my developing system, when my app exits, it always gets removed withing a
second from the task manager. on my clients machine, the app exits but stays
indefinitely in the task manager.

i tried every which way to kill the process, i did all of the following to
no avail:

in the module whose sub main loads the form and then starts
Application.Run(), i made an exit sub, in whichi set the app form to
Nothing, i set the apps class to nothing, t then lookd for the apps process
to kill it by

Dim proc, procs() As Process

procs = Process.GetProcessesByName("MyAppName")

For Each proc In procs

proc.Kill()

Next

and finally i ended with

Application.Exit()

and still the app lives on in the task manager and eats up resouces, though
i can't see how it is running

without hiring a hitman, how do i kill off this app?

ray

[Dave Sexton]

Hi,

This is a C# newsgroup, so your post isn't really appropriate. However,
your problem might be that you have a thread running that isn't set as a
background thread, which would prevent the AppDomain from being unloaded.

--
Dave Sexton

"ray well" <no****@nospam.comwrote in message
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on my developing system, when my app exits, it always gets removed withing
a second from the task manager. on my clients machine, the app exits but
stays indefinitely in the task manager.

i tried every which way to kill the process, i did all of the following to
no avail:

in the module whose sub main loads the form and then starts
Application.Run(), i made an exit sub, in whichi set the app form to
Nothing, i set the apps class to nothing, t then lookd for the apps
process to kill it by

Dim proc, procs() As Process

procs = Process.GetProcessesByName("MyAppName")

For Each proc In procs

proc.Kill()

Next

and finally i ended with

Application.Exit()

and still the app lives on in the task manager and eats up resouces,
though i can't see how it is running

without hiring a hitman, how do i kill off this app?

ray

[Gabriel Lozano-Morán]

The only reason I could think off right now that your appdomain will not
shutdown is that you have running foreground threads. Comparing the two
systems are there any big differences between the hardware? And more
specific like you having a Dual Core CPU and the customer not or something
like that? It could be a lot of things causing this behaviour.

Maybe you should post your main method.

Gabriel Lozano-Morán

"ray well" <no****@nospam.comwrote in message
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on my developing system, when my app exits, it always gets removed withing
a second from the task manager. on my clients machine, the app exits but
stays indefinitely in the task manager.

i tried every which way to kill the process, i did all of the following to
no avail:

in the module whose sub main loads the form and then starts
Application.Run(), i made an exit sub, in whichi set the app form to
Nothing, i set the apps class to nothing, t then lookd for the apps
process to kill it by

Dim proc, procs() As Process

procs = Process.GetProcessesByName("MyAppName")

For Each proc In procs

proc.Kill()

Next

and finally i ended with

Application.Exit()

and still the app lives on in the task manager and eats up resouces,
though i can't see how it is running

without hiring a hitman, how do i kill off this app?

ray

[ray well]

gabriel,

thanks for your suggesting.

i found the problem, i had my class shut down procedure attached to an exit
button, but forgot to attach it to the alt F4, clicking close on the control
box, and clicking the upper right x, which my client was using but just told
me he was closing the program and i assumed he was clicking the exit
button..

i now directed my exit button to the Closing event in which i placed my
class shut down process, and everything is just fine.

ray

[ray well]

dave,

i know this is c# group, but it wasn't a vb specific question but a general
problem, and i found that this c# group has smarter people that have answers
when the vb group hasn't a clue.

thanks for your suggesting.

i found the problem, i had my class shut down procedure attached to an exit
button, but forgot to attach it to the alt F4, clicking close on the control
box, and clicking the upper right x, which my client was using but just told
me he was closing the program and i assumed he was clicking the exit
button..

i now directed my exit button to the Closing event in which i placed my
class shut down process, and everything is just fine.

ray