I need to get the name of the program that launched a console application i am making in Visual studio. Any ideas on how i can do this?
I am doing this so i can see for how long robots in out company is running and when they are running.
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Find the console app in the process list, then find its parent. See How to get parent process in .NET in managed way for details.David Arno– David Arno2017-06-27 08:23:09 +00:00Commented Jun 27, 2017 at 8:23
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You can get the parent process of some other process like this:
public static Process GetParentProcess(Process process)
{
string query = "SELECT ParentProcessId FROM Win32_Process WHERE ProcessId = " + process.Id;
using (ManagementObjectSearcher mos = new ManagementObjectSearcher(query))
{
foreach (ManagementObject mo in mos.Get())
{
if (mo["ParentProcessId"] != null)
{
try
{
var id = Convert.ToInt32(mo["ParentProcessId"]);
return Process.GetProcessById(id);
}
catch
{
}
}
}
}
return null;
}
Inside your console app you would use it like
var parent = GetParentProcess(Process.GetCurrentProcess());
From this you can get all information about parent process.
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If you can modify the call of the console application, you can give the program name as an argument.
