How to kill a running program?

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Hi, all:

Do you know how tokill or stop process of a program? I want to kill all =
MS Project instance before launch a new one. How to do it?

thanks,

Dennis

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Re: How to kill a running program? by Herfried

Herfried
Fri Sep 26 11:37:44 CDT 2003

"Wongalogic" <DennisH@BlueVisions.com.au> schrieb:
> Do you know how tokill or stop process of a program? I want to kill
> all MS Project instance before launch a new one. How to do it?

You can enumerate the processes using the 'Process' class and terminate a
process by calling its 'Kill' method.

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Herfried K. Wagner
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<http://www.mvps.org/dotnet>
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Re: How to kill a running program? by Ken

Ken
Fri Sep 26 12:03:03 CDT 2003

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Hi,

Use process.kill. Here is an example on how to kill all running =
word apps.

Dim prWord As Process

For Each prWord In Process.GetProcessesByName("WINWORD")

prWord.Kill()

Next

Ken

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all MS Project instance before launch a new one. How to do it?

thanks,

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