Close and open other applications.

[John O.]

My Application requires me to open and close another Server application
periodically.How do I open and close another application from my application.

[MarkN]

"John O." <OTABACHIANO@NIMO> wrote:
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> My Application requires me to open and close another Server application
>periodically.How do I open and close another application from my application.

Are you writing that App too or have control over/involved with its development?
If so one way is to use sockets to close it and to run it should be easy.

Mark

[John O.]

"MarkN" <vb.@127.0.0.1> wrote:
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>"John O." <OTABACHIANO@NIMO> wrote:
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>> My Application requires me to open and close another Server application
>>periodically.How do I open and close another application from my application.
>
>Are you writing that App too or have control over/involved with its development?
> If so one way is to use sockets to close it and to run it should be easy.
>
>Mark
>


The other application is an OPC Server appliction provided by another vendor.
They also provide an ActiveX control to run the Server application but there
is no "Close();" Method to close the application which I need to do periodically
from my Client application.
Thanks for your help.

[MarkN]

I've done this sort of thing in VB. I used API's to go through the task list
and find the program and then kill it. Not very nice but since most Windows
apps are written with only themselves in mind, what can you do.

Mark

"John O." <OTABACHIANO@NIMO> wrote:
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>"MarkN" <vb.@127.0.0.1> wrote:
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>>"John O." <OTABACHIANO@NIMO> wrote:
>>>
>>> My Application requires me to open and close another Server application
>>>periodically.How do I open and close another application from my application.
>>
>>Are you writing that App too or have control over/involved with its development?
>> If so one way is to use sockets to close it and to run it should be easy.
>>
>>Mark
>>
>
>
> The other application is an OPC Server appliction provided by another
vendor.
>They also provide an ActiveX control to run the Server application but there
>is no "Close();" Method to close the application which I need to do periodically
>from my Client application.
> Thanks for your help.
>