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Nov 19, 2007
06:12 PM
how to detect running application?
All,
we are creating an installer which adds functionality to another product by adding some new dlls into it's installdir folder. As such we need to detect if the parent application is running and tell the user to shutdown the app before proceeding with our installer. We are using a basic msi installer.
How can i get this to work?
thanks
yann
we are creating an installer which adds functionality to another product by adding some new dlls into it's installdir folder. As such we need to detect if the parent application is running and tell the user to shutdown the app before proceeding with our installer. We are using a basic msi installer.
How can i get this to work?
thanks
yann
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Nov 23, 2007
05:46 AM
There's a sample "List and Shut Down Running Applications" at http://www.installsite.org/pages/en/isp_ext.htm . It's in InstallScript, you might either use a similar script in a custom action, or re-create the same as DLL in C.
Stefan Krueger
InstallSite.org
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