Finding out if an application is running??? 3

[VBDotNetProgrammer]

Hi all need a bit of help here please,

I need to be able to check if outlook is running, is there an easy way to do this?

I also want to be able to launch outlook if it isnt running, im sure it is some sort of shell execute command?

Thanks

 

[benlinkknilneb]

System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(filename)

will run the desired file/url/exe...

But I'm not sure how to detect whether it's running or not. In VB6 you had to search via API call for a window handle, and if you found one, the program was obviously running... but I don't know how .NET does it.

HTH
Ben

 

[VBDotNetProgrammer]

cool but dont i need to tell it where the file is? if that is the case that will be no good for me.

would

System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(OUTLOOK.exe)

do it?

 

[VBDotNetProgrammer]

Actually dont worry about the last question ive just tried it and it work fine thanks.

I still need to find out how to check if an app is running.

 

[SHelton]

Dim p() As System.Diagnostics.Process = System.Diagnostics.Process.GetProcessesByName("outlook")

If p.Length = 0 Then

	MessageBox.Show("Outlook not running!")

Else

	MessageBox.Show("Outlook running!")

End If

 

[VBDotNetProgrammer]

Brilliant thanks SHelton that did the trick.