Visual Basic 2015 Unleashed

Querying Existing Processes

You can easily get information on running processes through some methods from the Process class that provide the ability of getting process instances. For example, GetProcesses returns an array of Process objects, each one representing a running process. GetProcessById and GetProcessByName return information on the specified process given the identification number or name, whereas GetCurrentProcess returns an instance of the Process class representing the current process. Then the Process class exposes a lot of useful properties for retrieving information. Each of them should be self-explanatory, such as ProcessName, Id, ExitCode, Handle, and HasExited. However, other advanced information properties are available, ...