Process.SynchronizingObject Property
Gets or sets the object used to marshal the event handler calls that are issued as a result of a process exit event.
Assembly: System (in System.dll)
Property Value
Type: System.ComponentModel.ISynchronizeInvokeThe ISynchronizeInvoke used to marshal event handler calls that are issued as a result of an Exited event on the process.
When SynchronizingObject is null, methods that handle the Exited event are called on a thread from the system thread pool. For more information about system thread pools, see ThreadPool.
When the Exited event is handled by a visual Windows Forms component, such as a Button, accessing the component through the system thread pool might not work, or might result in an exception. Avoid this by setting SynchronizingObject to a Windows Forms component, which causes the methods handling the Exited event to be called on the same thread on which the component was created.
If the Process is used inside Visual Studio 2005 in a Windows Forms designer, SynchronizingObject is automatically set to the control that contains the Process. For example, if you place a Process on a designer for Form1 (which inherits from Form) the SynchronizingObject property of Process is set to the instance of Form1:
Me.process1.StartInfo.Domain = "" Me.process1.StartInfo.LoadUserProfile = False Me.process1.StartInfo.Password = Nothing Me.process1.StartInfo.StandardErrorEncoding = Nothing Me.process1.StartInfo.StandardOutputEncoding = Nothing Me.process1.StartInfo.UserName = "" Me.process1.SynchronizingObject = Me
Typically, this property is set when the component is placed inside a control or form, because those components are bound to a specific thread.
Private button1 As MyButton Private Sub button1_Click(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Dim myProcess As New Process() Dim myProcessStartInfo As New ProcessStartInfo("mspaint") myProcess.StartInfo = myProcessStartInfo myProcess.Start() AddHandler myProcess.Exited, AddressOf MyProcessExited ' Set 'EnableRaisingEvents' to true, to raise 'Exited' event when process is terminated. myProcess.EnableRaisingEvents = True ' Set method handling the exited event to be called ; ' on the same thread on which MyButton was created. myProcess.SynchronizingObject = button1 MessageBox.Show("Waiting for the process 'mspaint' to exit....") myProcess.WaitForExit() myProcess.Close() End Sub 'button1_Click Private Sub MyProcessExited(source As Object, e As EventArgs) MessageBox.Show("The process has exited.") End Sub 'MyProcessExited End Class 'Form1 Public Class MyButton Inherits Button End Class 'MyButton
for full trust for the immediate caller. This member cannot be used by partially trusted code.
Available since 1.1
SynchronizingObject
Process Class
System.Diagnostics Namespace