Visual Basic® 2010 Unleashed

Querying Existing Processes

You can easily get information on running processes through some methods from the Process class that provide the ability of getting process instances. For example, GetProcesses returns an array of Process objects, each one representing a running process whereas GetProcessById and GetProcessByName return information on the specified process given the identification number or name, whereas GetCurrentProcess returns an instance of the Process class representing the current process. Then the Process class exposes lots of useful properties for retrieving information, each of them self-explanatory such as ProcessName, Id, ExitCode, Handle, or HasExited but also other advanced information properties, such as PageMemorySize ...