[billbrunt]

Hi -

I'm new to VB programming....4 days so please forgive this silly question. I want to have a process running which is continually scanning various conditions and I have this part working. I want to be able to click a button to stop this. The only way I could think to do was to have my main program spawn another process. That process would read a file every x seconds which they main program writes to. If the file being written to meets a certain criteria then exit.

I would think there's a way to have a sub running in vb which responds to an interrupt. I'm sure this is silly question so please let me know the error my ways.

- Bill

[Qua]

You're talking about communication between two applications where the second application will respond to an event happening within the first one? I.e. closing down when the button's click event is triggered.

I would suggest a different take. Instead of making the second application, well, an application then create it as a windows service. Windows services are easy to both start, stop, and pause from external applications and they are well-suited for operations that require no interface and needs to be running at all times without user-interaction. Visual Studio allows you to create services just like your create normal applications.