I want to use the system.diagnostics namespace to see if in instance of an application is already running from within my VB.NET app. How do I query the task manager to see if it is already running I thought I had seen something similar in a recent issue of MSDN, but I can't find that article/back issue for love nor money. Any assistance/direction would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
Processes using System.Diagnostics Namespace
Koltron
This did the trick! Thanks!
You rock!
StriderIRL
If your goal is to prevent multiple runs of your program at the same time, you can use the framework (application settings) or create a mutex.
See this thread for more info: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=153674&SiteID=1
K. Murli Krishna
In order to determine if a process whose name you know is already running you can use the GetProcessesByName() method ala:
Dim processes() As System.Diagnostics.Process = System.Diagnostics.Process.GetProcessesByName("iexplore")
For Each p As System.Diagnostics.Process In processes
Console.WriteLine(p.ProcessName + " is running with id# " + p.Id.ToString())
Next
Does this work for you