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Kill an application

Hi,
I'm using VB.Net w/ Visual Studio 2005.

I'm trying to close a slideshow and then open it back up. I have some vba in the slideshow that executes on it's auto-open event, so when it opens back up it is updating the slides.

I tried to just kill the powerpoint.exe process, but that would close any slideshows that would be opened up on that pc and I don't really want to do that.

When I execute the code an InvalidOperationException msg is thrown. It says no process is associated with this object. I understand why this would happen initially since the process hasn't been opened yet the first time through. But if I continue through this msg and let the code open the slideshow then the next time through I would think the objprocess would have it's value. So what is causing this?

Thanks,
Dave
Private objProcess As System.Diagnostics.Process
Public Sub GetData()
        'close slide show.
        Try
            objProcess = New System.Diagnostics.Process()
            objProcess.StartInfo.FileName = "C:\Program Files\American Greetings\SlideShow\Sorter_Show_v5.0.pptm"
            objProcess.Kill()

        Catch
            MessageBox.Show("Could not stop process " & "C:\Program Files\American Greetings\SlideShow\Sorter_Show.ppt", "Error")
        End Try

        'Give powerpoint a second
        System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(1000)

        'Open the slideshow back up. VBA in the slideshow auto_open event will update slides.
        Try
            objProcess = New System.Diagnostics.Process()
            objProcess.StartInfo.FileName = "C:\Program Files\American Greetings\SlideShow\Sorter_Show_v5.0.pptm"
            objProcess.StartInfo.WindowStyle = ProcessWindowStyle.Minimized
            objProcess.Start()
        Catch
            MessageBox.Show("Could not start process " & "C:\Program Files\American Greetings\SlideShow\Sorter_Show_v5.0.pptm", "Error")
        End Try
End Sub

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sindhuxyz

Use below:

-- Start notepad
System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("notepad")

-- Kill It!!
' Kill all notepad process
Dim pProcess() As Process = System.Diagnostics.Process.GetProcessesByName("notepad")

For Each p As Process In pProcess
p.Kill()
Next
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Thanks for that quick reply!

That shows how to kill all notepad processes.  If I had 2 notepad docs opened, say one is ME.txt and the other YOU.txt then how could I kill ME.txt without killing YOU.txt?
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Works like a charm. Thanks!