Start external app with ShellExecuteEx and wait until it become initialized

Question

I have an application which needs to run several other applications in chain. I am running them via ShellExecuteEx. The order of running each of the apps is ver

Answer 1

If your application has some custom initialization logic that doesn't run in UI thread then WaitForInputIdle might not help. In that case you need a mechanism to signal the previous app that you're done initializing.

For signaling you can use named pipes, sockets, some RPC mechanism or a simple file based lock.