Get the PID of a Windows service

Question

Could anyone help me to know how to get the PID of a Windows service?
I need to get the PID in order to run the following command:

Process.Start(new Process         


        

Answer 1

Assuming you know the name of the EXE the service uses and there is exactly one of them:

int procID = Process.GetProcessesByName("yourservice")[0].Id;

The method Process.GetProcessesByName("yourservice") returns an Array of Processes with your specified name, so in case you don't know how much of "yourservice.exe" runs simultaneously you might need a foreach loop.