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

[William DePalo [MVP VC++]]

"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?

All of which begs the question as to why you need to do this. Kill() is a
last resort. It should be used sparingly.

With such a mindless loop can you really be certain that you are not
killing, or trying to kill, something important?

Is it that you are trying to shutdown the system? If so, there are better
ways.

Regards,
Will

[Ben Voigt]

"William DePalo [MVP VC++]" <wi***********@mvps.orgwrote in message
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"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?

All of which begs the question as to why you need to do this. Kill() is a
last resort. It should be used sparingly.

With such a mindless loop can you really be certain that you are not
killing, or trying to kill, something important?

No, the OP is trying to kill only applications with a particular process
name ("MyAppName").

Try attaching a debugger to the zombie task and see what threads are running
and where.

>
Is it that you are trying to shutdown the system? If so, there are better
ways.

Regards,
Will

[William DePalo [MVP VC++]]

"Ben Voigt" <rb*@nospam.nospamwrote in message
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>With such a mindless loop can you really be certain that you are not
killing, or trying to kill, something important?

No, the OP is trying to kill only applications with a particular process
name ("MyAppName").

My bad. Well then that's better.

Still, if the target is something written by the OP there are better ways to
go.

And if it is not, it's at best rude, at worst risky.

Regards,
Will

[Ben Voigt]

"William DePalo [MVP VC++]" <wi***********@mvps.orgwrote in message
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"Ben Voigt" <rb*@nospam.nospamwrote in message
news:OA**************@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...

>>With such a mindless loop can you really be certain that you are not
killing, or trying to kill, something important?

No, the OP is trying to kill only applications with a particular process
name ("MyAppName").

My bad. Well then that's better.

Still, if the target is something written by the OP there are better ways
to go.

I believe the OP already said the app had been told to exit, but it was
hanging. He needs to attach a debugger to the app while it's hung to find
out what went wrong in the exit path.

>
And if it is not, it's at best rude, at worst risky.

Regards,
Will