I have a scenario where I have to check whether user has already opened Microsoft Word. If he has, then I have to kill the winword.exe process and continue to execute my code.
Does any one have any straight-forward code for killing a process using vb.net or c#?
You'll want to use the System.Diagnostics.Process.Kill method. You can obtain the process you want using System.Diagnostics.Proccess.GetProcessesByName.
Examples have already been posted here, but I found that the non-.exe version worked better, so something like:
foreach ( Process p in System.Diagnostics.Process.GetProcessesByName("winword") )
{
try
{
p.Kill();
p.WaitForExit(); // possibly with a timeout
}
catch ( Win32Exception winException )
{
// process was terminating or can't be terminated - deal with it
}
catch ( InvalidOperationException invalidException )
{
// process has already exited - might be able to let this one go
}
}
You probably don't have to deal with NotSupportedException
, which suggests that the process is remote.