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[Victor]

I'm new to C# but I tried to write an application to terminate a process.

try
            {
                Process[] processes = Process.GetProcessesByName(processName);
                Console.Write("Got processes\n");
                foreach (Process process in processes)
                {
                    process.Kill();
                    Console.Write(processName + "TERMINATED!\n" + "+n");
                }
            }
            catch(InvalidOperationException)
            {
                Console.Write("ERROR CODE 12: Invalid Operation");
            }

I put in messages to test how far the program executed. It never gets to the actual process.Kill(); for some reason. Any ideas? thanks in advance

[ArekBulski]

First of all, post you complete solution so we can run... ahem, let our pcs die. :closedeyes:

[Victor]

As requested

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•  Batch Terminate 0.1.zip   44.76K   26 downloads

Edited by Victor, 13 April 2009 - 02:49 PM.

[morefood2001]

Please post your complete code base so that we can run your code and figure out what is wrong :)

[ArekBulski]

I explained via PM. Now about the code. Is it possible that you search for "notepad" thing while the GetProcessesByName() method requires input like "notepad.exe" ?

EDIT: Ah, dang. Looks like a dead end. Sample code on MSDN is without extension. Process.GetProcessesByName Method (String) (System.Diagnostics)

Regards, :cool:
Arek Bulski

[Victor]

Being new to C#, I wasn't aware I could search for process name instead of just specifying the names. How exactly would I be able to do that?

[Victor]

Fixed the problem. When I fed the blacklist into the program, it looked for processes that it couldn't find because of how I specified. I just needed to lose the extensions, terminated processes flawlessly.

Basically, Arek was right I just wasn't sure what he was talking but I was tinkering and sort of stumbled onto what he meant.

Thank you for all your help (and patience) Arek

Attached revised blacklist for those curious few

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•  blacklist.zip   249bytes   42 downloads

[Victor]

Finished program
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Edited by Victor, 13 April 2009 - 05:54 PM.
wrong link