Re: [WiX-users] terminate/stop/close Application when installing

[Muzikayise F. B. <muz...@gm...>]

Hi Peter,

thanks for kindly getting back to will checkout the thread.

Ta.

On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 5:01 PM, Peter Shirtcliffe <psh...@sd...> wrote:
> Util:CloseApplication is the Wix way to do it. I've provided an example on
> this thread
>
> http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/CloseApplicatio
> n-td6885610.html#none
>
> Also, you can document the requirement or put it in a bootstrapper/chainer.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Muzikayise Flynn Buthelezi [mailto:muz...@gm...]
> Sent: 17 October 2012 15:54
> To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
> Subject: [WiX-users] terminate/stop/close Application when installing
>
> Good afternoon Team, trust everyone is well.
>
> whats the best way to terminate an application before installing it?
>
> We have an application which we rollout to thousands of machines, sometimes
> the application is still open on the machine while we do this rollout
> therefore the rollout does not occur on that machine. So what we want to do
> is terminate/stop/close current application so that we may carry on
> installing it.
>
> the ideal solution would be to pop up an alert box advising the user that the
> application will be closed in 10 seconds, after 10 seconds then we
> terminate/stop/close the application and carry on with install (This would be
> nice, but first priority is just to
> terminate/stop/close)
>
>
> thanks in advance for your kind assistance,
>
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>
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