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Hi All,

I'm trying to develop a sort of daemon that waits in the background until the user launches Outlook. Once Outlook is running, I need to kick off a procmon trace. The problem I'm having is that my program only seems to know the list of processes that were running when I initially kicked it off. What I really need is for it to re-enumerate the processes running on the system & detect whether Outlook was launched since it last checked. Here's what I currently have:

C#

class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            while (!processRunning("outlook.exe"))
                System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(10000);

            System.Threading.Thread thread = new System.Threading.Thread(DoWork);
            thread.Start();
        }

        static void DoWork()
        {
            Shell.ExecuteCommand(@"procdump.exe -ma -e Outlook.exe");
        }

        static bool processRunning(string processName)
        {
            bool found = false;
            Process[] processes = Process.GetProcesses();
            foreach (Process p in processes)
                if (p.ProcessName == processName)
                    found = true;

            return found;
        }
    }

If I launch this program when Outlook is currently running, everything is fine, and the procom trace kicks off. If I launch it before opening Outlook, it never detects that Outlook was started; Process.GetProcesses just keeps cycling through the same list of processes that it obtained when I first launched the program.

If anyone's encountered this before & knows how to resolve it, that would be much appreciated.

Posted 27-Aug-12 7:04am

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Dasaradhi_r · Accepted Answer · 2012-08-27T08:18:00

I don't have any issues with below code. Should work alright.
The only difference is I used "outlook" in place of "outlook.exe"

C#

static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        int j = 0;
        while (!processRunning("outlook"))
            System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(10000);

        System.Threading.Thread thread = new System.Threading.Thread(DoWork);
        thread.Start();
    }

    static void DoWork()
    {
       Shell.ExecuteCommand(@"procdump.exe -ma -e Outlook.exe");
    }

    static bool processRunning(string processName)
    {
        Process[] processlist = Process.GetProcesses();
        var i = processlist.Where(p => p.ProcessName.ToLower().Contains("outlook"));
        return (i.Count() > 0);
    }