Bringing a program to the front

[Thore Berntsen]

Does anyone know how I can check if a program is running, if the answer is
yes then bring it to the front, if no start it?

Thore Berntsen

 

[Stelrad Doulton]

to find out what is running you can pinvoke CreateToolhelp32Snapshot and
Process32First and Process32Next

 

[Sergey Bogdanov]

There are different approaches for this. One of this method is use
FindWindow, SetForegroundWindow:

// in the main function
IntPtr nWnd = FindWindow(null, "Main Window Title");

if(nWnd != IntPtr.Zero)
{
SetForegroundWindow(nWnd);
Application.Exit();
}

....

[DllImport("coredll",EntryPoint="FindWindow")]
private static extern IntPtr FindWindow(string className, string
windowName);

[DllImport("coredll",EntryPoint="SetForegroundWindow")]
private static extern bool SetForegroundWindow(IntPtr hWnd);




Best regards,
Sergey Bogdanov