Not Sure how to Do this

Question

I have made a program that hooks into another, using their own API's. Now their API's don't tell me how to locate their program if its installed any place other then the defualt.

Well, I would prefer to have my little program locate their automaticly and not have to ask the user for the install location.

Is there a way I can do this? I have already looked at their registry values and their is not Install Location one like some program put in.

If it is possible to do, could somone point me to a tutorial, or post a code sample i would apperciate it very much.

Glenn · Answer

The problem doing it that way is the the controls for interacting with it requires a path. i.e. C:\Program Files\Program Folder\ Your post did point me a direction that has turned out to be a good solution for me. Process[] process2 = Process.GetProcessesByName(Program); int count = process2.Length; if (count { MessageBox.Show(Required Program is not yet running!); } else { ProcessModule PM = process2[0].MainModule; string TargetDir = PM.FileName.Replace(Program.exe ) } Again thanks for the help.

Alan · Answer

If the other program is already running then you can use the System.Diagnostics.Process class to get a handle to it: Process[] procs = Process.GetProcessesByName(otherAppName); IntPtr ip = IntPtr.Zero; if (procs.Length > 0) ip = procs[0].Handle; // handle to first or only instance