how can I kill the application?

[mase]

I use shellexecute function to launch application, but now I wish to kill it, what function can I use?

[kirants]

Why do you want to kill it ? Perhaps there are ways to make it go away gracefully..

[mase]

why do I want to kill it? I really don't have any reason. It's just for the learning process that I want to know some basic common task using window programming such launching application and closing it.

when I say closing it, I really to want to end its process so it won't show up in the task manager that it's running.

[kirants]

check out topics on windows SDK FAQs forum here:
http://www.codeguru.com/forum/index.php?

[mase]

that's alot of materials to read. It can be handy, thanks.

[kirants]

You could start with the index and pick the ones most relevant to you ( Processes in your case ) and go from there ;)

[Zaccheus]

Here's the actual FAQ you need:

"Processes: How can I kill a process?"
http://www.codeguru.com/forum/showthread.php?t=312449

[mase]

I went to the FAQ and read about the process... It's kind of hard to understand :(

[mase]

const TCHAR *text = TEXT("MyEvent");
int terminateMyAPP()
{
HANDLE terminate = CreateEvent(NULL, FALSE, FALSE, text );
if(!terminate)
return 0;

If(GetLastError()== ERROR_ALREADY_EXISTS)
{
SetEvent(terminate);
Sleep(8000);
CloseHandle(terminate);
}

return 0;

}