My winform application is launched by another application (the parent), I need determine the pid of the application which launch my application using C#.
WMI is the easier way to do this in C#. The Win32_Process class has the ParentProcessId property. Here's an example:
using System;
using System.Management; // <=== Add Reference required!!
using System.Diagnostics;
class Program {
public static void Main() {
var myId = Process.GetCurrentProcess().Id;
var query = string.Format("SELECT ParentProcessId FROM Win32_Process WHERE ProcessId = {0}", myId);
var search = new ManagementObjectSearcher("root\\CIMV2", query);
var results = search.Get().GetEnumerator();
results.MoveNext();
var queryObj = results.Current;
var parentId = (uint)queryObj["ParentProcessId"];
var parent = Process.GetProcessById((int)parentId);
Console.WriteLine("I was started by {0}", parent.ProcessName);
Console.ReadLine();
}
}
Output when run from Visual Studio:
I was started by devenv