The potential issue with closing down a COM server is what the clients do. If you terminate it forcibly and there are (say) 10 clients using it, what will these clients do? Crash? Lose data?
IMO it's more usual to replace COM servers in place rather than to a different folder. Then you can take advantage of any files in use dialogs that can be shown, and if the server cannot be shut down then Windows will prompt for a reboot to update it with the new version. Phil Wilson -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dong Fang Xie (Excell Data Corporation) Sent: Friday, September 21, 2007 2:34 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [WiX-users] How to detect a running process which is not part of the installing files ??? I checked CloseApps.cpp in WiX 3, it can not provide any help at all. The process that I want the user to terminate is different, it is the old version installed in a different folder. It is a COM server, and it must be terminated and unregistered, or the new version (will be installed to another folder) will never take effect. Why WiX has no such simple (and vital) function built in ? Can anybody provide any help ? Thanks in advance ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - From: Rob Mensching Sent: Friday, September 21, 2007 12:36 PM To: Prasanta Ghosal; Windows Installer Xml Virtual Team Subject: RE: How to identify if a process is running using Wix Look at the CloseApps custom action. From: Prasanta Ghosal Sent: Friday, September 21, 2007 12:34 To: Windows Installer Xml Virtual Team Subject: How to identify if a process is running using Wix Hello, We are trying to come up with an installer using wix. We need to detect if a specific process is running in the system or not. Could anyone please help us about how to detect if a process is running or not in the system from the wix installer? Thanks ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
