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Dear All,

I am making a windows desktop application. The problem I am facing is that I had opened windows explorer programatically using following command:

System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("Explorer.exe",@"c:\" + LearnerID );

I will search for specific file in that particular location.
and I want to close the explorer programatically.

I am using:

KillProcessByUserName("explorer.exe", Environment.UserName);

function to close that particular explorer.
but the problem is that the search explorer will not get closed. I would like to know how to close that search window explorer.

Any kind of link, suggestion and specially expert advice would be highly appreciated.

Thanks & Regards
Balkrishna Raut

Posted 21-Dec-10 18:42pm

meBalkrishna

Updated 21-Dec-10 18:45pm

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Wild-Programmer · Answer 1 · 2010-12-21T19:32:00

See the basic idea while doing this kind of work is to get the handle of the application first which you are going to open. When you have to close the application you will use the same handle (that you stored before while opening) to close it.

Code help:

C#

string processName = "Process1";

foreach (Process proc in Process.GetProcessesByName(processName))
      proc.Kill();

Links for reference:

http://dotnetperls.com/kill[^]

or

http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/UploadFile/scottlysle/ProcessKillCSharp04302008060422AM/ProcessKillCSharp.aspx[^]

vivekse · Answer 2 · 2010-12-21T19:35:00

Hi,

Keep Process object for further use.

Process TestPro=System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("Explorer.exe",@"c:\" + LearnerID );

With TestPro object you can get its process id by that can be use for killing process or just make a dictionary with process object and its id.

Process.GetProcessById();

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