Thread: How to stop a aplication

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    Question How to stop a aplication

    I have aplication A, it launch apliction B with ShellExecute.
    I want to stop aplication B from aplication A.
    Thanks for your time

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    Send application B the WM_CLOSE message. If that doesnt close the application, then you can terminate the process. You can read more about this at:
    http://support.microsoft.com/default...NoWebContent=1

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    Angry I tried TerminateProcess but...

    The B process continues
    I tried: TerminateProcess("som1",NULL);
    Thanks for your time

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    >>I tried: TerminateProcess("som1",NULL);
    TerminateProcess does NOT take a string and a pointer. You need to get a HANDLE to the target process, and specify an unsigned integer for an exit code. I don't know how you can get a handle to the process if you're using ShellExecute(), although if you use CreateProcess() instead you can specify the process ID in a call to OpenProcess() to get the process handle.

    Once you have the handle, say theHandle, and an exit code, say exitCode with a value of 0:
    TerminateProcess(theHandle, exitCode);
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