capturing name of currently running application from titlebar.

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in my application i want to capture the name of each currently running application from the titlebar,as i open new application then i want to get the name of new currently running application shown in titlebar.

Posted 14-Mar-11 17:34pm

Ujwala Gholap

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Answer 1 · 2011-03-14T18:20:00

You should remember that using the text is the title bar can not be reliably used for application identification.

You should list all the processes running on the system, using the static method System.Diagnostics.Process.GetProcesses. Each process returned by this method is represented by the instance of the class System.Diagnostics.Process. You can use the property System.Diagnostics.Process.MainWindowTitle — this is what are you asking about. Make sure you put the call to this property under try-catch block as this call will throw exception when this value cannot be defined (closed processes, processes not using main window, etc.).

Please see other properties of the Process class and also the properties of System.Diagnostics.Process.MainModule. This property represent main module of the entry assembly, what people refer to as "executable file" (which not a strict notion in .NET, it is what I mentioned above).

—SA