process

[quarinteen]

I am writing an app in this app it runs the same process over and over. but I want to wait in between it running the process. what i have is. I can not get this to wait for osql.exe to quit. if i run it like this it sends an out of bounds error. how can i easily make it wait for osql.exe to quit before it starts the next instance???? BTW i need to put that i did not start this process in the program it is being started by a script. the script dows not sow up as a process.

if(checkbox1 == true)
{
//it will run this process in this case it is osql.exe
}
Process p = Process.GetProcessByName("osql.exe")[0];
p.waitForExit();

if(checkbox2 == true)
{
//it runs osql

[RedSon]

You could call thread.sleep() or some other system sleep message.

[quarinteen]

i tried that but the program freezes. I am going to have to use this over and over again.

[RedSon]

Thats the point of sleep. Your program freezes for however long you sleep for. Is that not what you want?

[quarinteen]

no i just want to program to wait to execute osql until the previous instance is completed. and if i put a sleep on there the amount of time that osql takes to finish varies from machine to machine so it might need to sleep for 30 seconds on one machine but 65 on another.

[RedSon]

So why not set up a semaphore that way when your first process stops it will signal the semaphore and then your second process can start. You should also google for inter process communication, which will help you get your processes chatting.