[RESOLVED] Threads, Processes getting locked

[SpagettiProg]

Hi Everyone,

I'm writing a service in VB.NET, and it starts up fine, but I have a problem when I stop the service. If I launch an application from my service, when I stop the service, the other application is still running. How can I terminate it.


Note: I tried Posting a WM_CLOSE to wordpad.exe and it did not work.
Here is some code......

Imports System.ServiceProcess
Imports System.Threading
Imports System.IO
 
 
 
 
Public Class Service1
    Inherits System.ServiceProcess.ServiceBase
 
    Dim start As Diagnostics.Process
    Dim thread1 As Thread
    Dim mainPath As String
 
 
    Protected Overrides Sub OnStart(ByVal args() As String)
        
        thread()
 
    End Sub
 
 
 
    Public Sub thread()
 
        thread1 = New Thread(AddressOf RunMyapp)
        thread1.Start() 'starts the thread
 
    End Sub
 
 
    Public Sub RunMyapp()
 
   
        mainPath = "C:\Program Files\Windows NT\Accessories\wordpad.exe"
        start = New Diagnostics.Process
        start.StartInfo.WindowStyle = ProcessWindowStyle.Maximized
        start.Start(mainPath)
 
 
    End Sub