how to get event when application is closed from task manager

Question

Hi All,

I have developed a win32 application using c/c++, which runs on vista and xp,

I wanted to know, can i get any event in my application when my application is killed from

task manager, by selecting the "end process" button

I want to free some memory on exit of my application.

Please help in this regard

with regards,

Vinayaka Karjigi

Answer 1

Nope, your application is terminated without any notice. You are at mercy of Task Manager.

Answer 2

In .net 2.0 you can get closing reason of CloseReason.TaskManagerClosing. Therefore I suspect there is a structured exception you should be able to handle.

Edit. Possibly not

I suspect that the CLR places break point on NTTerminateProcess for managed processes.