Get Correct Application Process

Question

How can I get an application's process if more than one instance is open.

var processList= Process.GetProcessesByName("MyProcess");

Example:-

2 chrome browsers are open. In the list of processes in the tast mgr, I have 2 chrome processes. I run an application that starts chrome using some Apis "not through Process.Start("")". Now I have 3 in the Task Mgr porcesses

How can I get the process that my application started, and not the other 2 that were already open ? how can I distinguish between the 3 processes that I will get from the statement above

I tried sorting them based on the TotalProcessorTime property, and get the one with the shortest time, but what if I decided to a open another chrome after that, I will get the wrong process.

What do you mean correct process? So you mean if a process has the same name — LiverpoolOwen
– LiverpoolOwen, Commented Apr 28, 2017 at 23:01
Yes if I have 3 porcesses, 2 that have been started earlier. Then I started the new process, and I want to get the one I started. All of them have the same name, its the same application — ZZZ
– ZZZ, Commented Apr 28, 2017 at 23:04
When you start the process in your program, you should also have a Process object associated with this process. (If not, use one of the static Process.Start(...) overloads, which return a Process_object). This _Process object will give you the process id and other information about the process you started... — user2819245
– user2819245, Commented Apr 28, 2017 at 23:25

LiverpoolOwen · Accepted Answer · 2017-04-28 23:36:09Z

Ok based on the information you have given if it is always the most recent Process then you could try the following

MostRecentlyStartedProcess(Process.GetProcessesByName("MyProcess")); public Process MostRecentlyStartedProcess(Process[] procceses) { Process result = null; foreach (Process process in procceses) { if (result == null) { result = process; } else { if (process.StartTime < result.StartTime) { result = process; } } } return result; }

your answer will get the current newest process, but what if the user were to start a new process (double clicking chrome) after I already started the program. It would get the wrong process, this is where my issue is

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