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Sossenbinder
Sossenbinder

Reputation: 5322

How can I keep a handle on System.Diagnostics.Process.start?

I opened an explorer instance via

System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("explorer.exe", @<path>);

however, I also want to close this exact process at a given time.

I tried this so far:

System.Diagnostics.Process proc = new System.Diagnostics.Process();
proc.Start("explorer.exe", @<path>);

However, that doesn't seem to work at all. This is what I'm getting when I try it that way:

"Member '' cannot be accessed with an instance reference; qualify it with a type name instead"

I am fairly sure it's something pretty simple, but I can't get around it...

Any help?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2896

Answers (3)

Ric
Ric

Reputation: 13248

The issue that you had is that that the method Process.Start() is a static method and does not need an instance of the Process class to be called.

As others have said, Start() returns a Process object that you can then work with and can call Kill() later on at some point.

Upvotes: 1

Eser
Eser

Reputation: 12546

System.Diagnostics.Process.Start returns Process

var proc = System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("explorer.exe", @<path>); 
proc.Kill();

Upvotes: 4

Patrick Hofman
Patrick Hofman

Reputation: 157116

Create the Process using ProcessStartInfo:

ProcessStartInfo psi = new ProcessStartInfo("explorer.exe", @"C:\some.file");
Process p = Process.Start(psi);

///

p.Kill();

Call Kill on the process when you want to.

Upvotes: 3

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