I want to configure the installer to stop a WPF application if it is running before installing the new version.
How do I do this in a Setup & Deployment Project.
Thanks.
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Short of communicating with the app with some other little app that runs before the installation takes place (which would be way overkill), I don't know that you could do this automatically, but the installer should prompt the user to shut it down. Does it not?
Mike Pateras
2010-03-02 14:44:26
Nope, the installer removes all the files but the exe is still running (shows in the Task Manager). Eventually the application crashes when a background task runs. So far I've got a vbscript that kills the process and the installer calls the script before continuing. Ideally I wanted something a bit more graceful but I guess this will have to do for now.
empo
2010-03-03 09:46:43