Can we get the Application name from Task manager's Image Name or from process name in C#?

Question

We can view any application (.exe) image name on Task Manager as for example:

firefox = firefox.exe
Microsoft Office Word = WINWORD.exe

So my question is; is it possible tio retreive the application name (Firefox, Microsoft Office Word etc) by just having the process name (WINWORD.EXE)?

Obv this is achievable by hard coding it but i want it in a general case (for most applications whose name that cant be easily determined by just looking at their process name (.exe)).....

cheers

Answer 1

I'm not sure if it would work but you could try using reflection to try and get the product name of the assembly that is running. I really don't know if that would work for none .NET applications though.

Answer 2

Task manager is showing you the Process.MainWindowTitle text.  This can actually change during runtime of a program, so there's no way to get it from nothing but a filename, but you can get it from any running processing using the System.Diagnostics.Process class.

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Reed Copsey, Jr. - http://reedcopsey.com

Answer 3

is your question related to this?

richTextBox1.Text = System.IO.Path.GetFileName(System.Diagnostics.Process.GetCurrentProcess().MainModule.FileName);
richTextBox2.Text = System.IO.Path.GetFileName(System.Reflection.Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().Location);

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Balaji Baskar

Answer 4

I believe you'll want:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.diagnostics.process.aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.diagnostics.processmodule.aspx

Specifically "Process.GetAllProcesses()" and maybe a few things from the ProcessModule class. Either way you'll want the System.Diagnostics namespace and, as previously mentioned, maybe reflection.

Answer 5

Seems impossible unless you hard wire from the filename.