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mcintyre321
mcintyre321

Reputation: 13316

Detect when a process has exited (not crashed)

I'm trying to run some code when notepad.exe has been closed gracefully (by the user, as opposed to crashed or shutdown by the OS) using Win32 events so I can implement an autosave.

If I have an IntPtr for a running notepad.exe process handle, how can I do this?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 492

Answers (1)

Anders
Anders

Reputation: 101764

There is no process property you can query to see if a process crashed or was terminated. The best you can do is to check the exit code, if it is 0 then the process probably exited after successfully completing its "action".

MSDN has a example that uses WaitForExit and the ExitCode property on a child process...

Upvotes: 1

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