Process doesn't die

[jimocz]

Hi all,
I am new to .NET so this problem may not be a problem to this groups
readers.
I am learning .NET and I have built programs and lauched them within
the IDE. Occassionally my program's process won't end with the program
completing (by using the window's X button). In fact I cannot manually
terminate the process with the Task Manager. This is frustrating since
I cannot rebuild the program without the executable completing.
Question: Has anybody seen this issue? Is there another way to kill a
process in windows other than the task manager? In Unix you would kill
-9 but I don't know how to kill a process from the CMD prompt in
windows.

 

[Guest]

If you have launched the program from the VS ide, it runs with the debugger
attached by default (if you pushed F5).
to kill it, you have to either select 'debug->stop debugging' from the menu,
or press shift-F5 while the IDE window is the active window.
that should kill your process.

for the shortcut keys i assume that your keybindings have C++ behavior
(tools-> options). else the menu items may have different shortcut keys
attached to it.

kind regards,
Bruno.

 

[jimocz]

It doesn't die with the stop debugging menu selection either. The IDE
thinks it stopped since the Debug menu selections have changed,
however, I try to rebuild but I get a linker error since the executable
is still running and I cannot overwrite the exe file. The task manager
shows the process is running. Last time I rebooted to get rid of the
zombie process (at least I think it is a zombie) and my solution file
refused to load. It was stuck on the Form1.h[ design] file on loading
and all I ever saw was an hourglass. I had to reconstruct the solution
from scratch cutting and pasting code -- but I have the same problem.
The process exists and doesn't want to die!

 

[Bruno van Dooren]

weird.
could you give some more information?
what version of windows? what version of VS? which version of .NET?

could you possibly try to create a small reproduction case and post that
here?

kind regards,
Bruno.

 

[Oleg Starodumov]

It doesn't die with the stop debugging menu selection either. The IDE
thinks it stopped since the Debug menu selections have changed,
however, I try to rebuild but I get a linker error since the executable
is still running and I cannot overwrite the exe file. The task manager
shows the process is running.

A possible reason is that the process is waiting for a pending I/O operation.
After you have reproduced the problem under debugger, break in (Debug | Break All),
take a look at call stacks of all threads and try to determine what they are
waiting for.

Regards,
Oleg
[VC++ MVP http://www.debuginfo.com/]

 

[Guest]

You can try taskkill.exe from cmd.exe