Check if a specific exe file is running

Question

I want to know how i can check a program in a specific location if it is running. For example there are two locations for test.exe in c:\\loc1\\test.exe and c:\\loc2\\test.e

Answer 1

System.Reflection.Assembly.GetEntryAssembly()

This will bring for you a lot of info about the entry assembly, such as:

System.Reflection.Assembly.GetEntryAssembly().CodeBase;

This will tell the location of the running assembly.

Answer 2

You should iterate over all existing processes and then check their MainModule property for the file name you are looking for. Something like this

using System.Diagnostics;
using System.IO;

//...

string fileNameToFilter = Path.GetFullPath("c:\\loc1\\test.exe");

foreach (Process p in Process.GetProcesses())
{
   string fileName = Path.GetFullPath(p.MainModule.FileName);

   //cehck for equality (case insensitive)
   if (string.Compare(fileNameToFilter, fileName, true) == 0)
   {
      //matching...
   }
}