Not Sure how to Do this

Glenn

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.

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Glenn19y ago
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 <= 0)
            {
                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.
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Alan19y ago
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
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