InvalidOperationException with Process

c# process invalidoperationexception
Morgan M. picture Morgan M. · Aug 1, 2013 · Viewed 15.4k times · Source

I'm starting a new process using the following code:

Process p = new Process();
p.StartInfo.FileName = "...";
p.StartInfo.Arguments = "...";
p.Start();
p.WaitForExit(300000); // 5 minutes

if (!p.HasExited) 
    p.Kill();
Console.Write(p.ExitCode);

When the process ends within the 5 minutes, that's working, but when it doesn't, I get

InvalidOperationException (Process must exit before requested information can be determined...).

Any idea why I'm getting this exception?

Thank you.

Answer

Drew McGowen picture Drew McGowen · Aug 1, 2013

According to MSDN, "The Kill method executes asynchronously. After calling the Kill method, call the WaitForExit method to wait for the process to exit, or check the HasExited property to determine if the process has exited."

In other words, just because Kill returns doesn't mean the process is actually gone. You'll need to call WaitForExit to wait until the process has actually disappeared.

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