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    copied!<p>I'm coding a watchdog service for an embedded system that monitors some proprietary processes and restarts them if necessary. (Nothing to do with <em>malware</em>, before you ask. It's just a business requirement)</p> <p>I need to <strong>retrieve the friendly name from a process I have just created</strong>, so that later I can retrieve that process using that name in order to monitor its health.</p> <p>My problem is as follows:</p> <ul> <li><p>If I try to read <code>Process.ProcessName</code> right after <code>Process.Start()</code>, I get an <code>InvalidOperationException</code> because it the process has not been fully created yet.</p></li> <li><p>The same happens if I use <code>Process.WaitForInputIdle()</code>, but since this requires a message pump and many executables could be UI-less launchers for the actual application, this might not be an option.</p></li> <li><p>I <strong>need</strong> to get the friendly name right after creating the process, before doing anything else.</p></li> </ul> <p>Here's a code snippet:</p> <pre><code>var startInfo = new ProcessStartInfo { FileName = "notepad.exe" }; var process = new Process(); process.StartInfo = startInfo; process.Start(); process.WaitForInputIdle(); var friendlyName = process.ProcessName; </code></pre> <p>This will throw an <code>InvalidOperationException</code> on the last line if the process being started is Firefox, for example.</p> <p>So how would I do this? Is there a safer method? </p> <p>EDIT: Added a code snippet for clarification. EDIT2: Rephrased the whole question for clarification, left irrelevant stuff out.</p>
 

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