Checking if process exists

[Coukapecker]

I'm trying to find a method that will return true if a process exists, and false if it does not. I came across this one, but can't seem to get it to work properly.

using System.Diagnostics;

int main() {
	if IsProcessOpen(firefox) == true {
		MessageBox(NULL, "Firefox is running", NULL, NULL);
	}

}
public bool IsProcessOpen(string name)
{
	foreach (Process clsProcess in Process.GetProcesses()) {
		if (clsProcess.ProcessName.Contains(name))
		{
			return true;
		}
	}
	return false;
}

}

How can I change this so it works correctly o.o?

any help would be appriciated,

thanks,

Coukapecker

[Amleto]

That's managed code / c#. So of course it wont compile as c++ code

I suggest you look at win api / msdn documents for process enumeration.

here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...89(VS.85).aspx is probably a good start.

[TBBW]

You can use;

WaitForSingleObject( pi.hProcess, INFINITE );
CloseHandle( pi.hProcess );
CloseHandle( pi.hThread );