Shut down one program from another?
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I have a VB.NET application that runs all the time in a custom Kiosk my company builds. I'd like to be able to shutdown and then restart our application remotely. We use Remote Administrator for this now, but there's a lot of them so when I have a need to do things like this I'd rather not do it manually. So, I wrote a Service that runs in our Kiosks. Since our units are equipped with an FTP server, my service simply looks for an XML file to show up in a certain directory. The XML file contains a list of "commands", one of which is to shut down our software. In looking in how to shut down another process I looked at the System.Diagnostics.Process namespace and wrote this: from within "Main": Dim ProcessHandler As New System.Diagnostics.Process() If (FindRunner(ProcessHandler)) Then ProcessPath = StopRunner(ProcessHandler) End If ' Functions Private Function StopRunner(ByVal Process As System.Diagnostics.Process) As String Dim ProcessPath As String ProcessPath = Process.MainModule.FileName Process.CloseMainWindow() Process.WaitForExit(3000) If Not Process.HasExited Then Process.Kill() End If Return ProcessPath End Function Private Function FindRunner(ByRef Process As System.Diagnostics.Process) As Boolean Dim colProcess() As System.Diagnostics.Process colProcess = Diagnostics.Process.GetProcessesByName("TEC_Runner") If colProcess.Length > 0 Then Process = colProcess(0) Return True End If Return False End Function The Kill() was added later when I realized that CloseMainWindow() wasn't working for me from within the Service. Debugging a service is kind of a pain, so I first wrote the code as just another VB.NET application and this worked great every time. However, when I moved the same code into the Service, the WaitForExit() never returned (I didn't specify any milliseconds at first which of course meant it locked up). I don't understand why it works every time from within a normal application, but NEVER succeeds from within a Service. Do I need to do this some other way? Any ideas what's going on? Using Kill() works... mostly... but it rips the application down without letting it cleanup (and it does important things when being shut down normally that I need it to do). Please help! Thanks! Matt Philmon