"Background process is running: Exit Aborted" message when trying to close GP

By Steve Endow

I am developing a Dynamics GP VS Tools AddIn for a customer, and while testing the AddIn, I started to get this message when I tried to close GP:

"Background process is running: Exit Aborted"

In my VS Tools AddIn code, I am accessing a table buffer, and during my first few versions of the rough code, I had forgotten to close the tables.  This left them open, and caused GP to think that they were still being accessed.  So I added the following lines to close the table buffers:

paBillingSubDetailWorkTm.Close();

paCostCategory.Close();

But even after that, I would still get the Background Process message from GP.

After further review, I realized that I did not have a Try / Catch block in my code yet.  So an error was causing an exception before the Close commands were processed.

After adding the Close commands in a Finally block, the Background Process message went away.

As my daughter says, "Easy peasy lemon squeezee"...

Update: This issue was discussed by David Musgrave in a blog post back in 2009.  Funny that I had this problem back in 2010 and posted a comment on his blog.  And now four years later, I made the same mistake again!

Steve Endow is a Dynamics GP Certified Trainer and Dynamics GP Certified IT Professional in Los Angeles.  He is also the owner of Precipio Services, which provides Dynamics GP integrations, customizations, and automation solutions.

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