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Hooch
Hooch

Reputation: 29703

Restart other application. C#, .net

I want to restart some process. Lets call it someApp.exe. How can I restart that process? It's not my application. It's some external program.

Upvotes: 6

Views: 7061

Answers (2)

Oscar Mederos
Oscar Mederos

Reputation: 29863

What you want to do is:

  • Kill the process
  • Start it again

There are some ways of obtaining a Process instance in C#. Let's suppose you know the name of the process:

var process = Process.GetProcessesByName("notepad++")[0];

Then you can do:

process.Kill();

But to start it again, you need to know the path of the process, so before killing it, save the path of the executable:

var path = process.MainModule.FileName;

And then you can do:

Process.Start(path);

You should check if GetProcessesByName returns elements before taking the first element, but I just wanted to focus on the important thing here.

Upvotes: 12

William Xifaras
William Xifaras

Reputation: 5312

You can use the Process.Start.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/53ezey2s.aspx#Y1400

Upvotes: 0

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