So far I have read ways using the Win32 API and P/Invoke to try to work around it but this seems messy at best. So I did the following: try This works except for the fact that the Notify Icons in the System Tray are not removed when the processes are killed so when I start them again it creates a second icon.

Obviously without killing these processes the update would fail because the files are in use. The notification area is the portion of the taskbar that displays icons for system and. On macOS, this is currenly converted to a NSMenu, so the aboutToHide () signal is not emitted. Programs that minimize to deskbands are not displayed in the taskbar. The menu will pop up when the user requests the context menu for the system tray icon by clicking the mouse button. These listener programs also reference the assemblies I am trying to update. void QSystemTrayIcon:: setContextMenu ( QMenu menu) Sets the specified menu to be the context menu for the system tray icon. However in some cases the customer has add on interfaces that are running (TCP Listener Programs to communicate with 3rd party programs about inventory quantities) in the background.

Hello MSDN Forums, I have an update utility that is responsible for copying updated assemblies from a shared folder on the customers server into the application directory when it detects a new update.

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