Detect running process and shut it down

Hey,

I was kind of surprised to find no results to my question on a search in VB.NET - very surprising to see no one has wanted this, or was i just searching wrong?

Well, my problem is this. I have a program that renames an exe, but of course if the exe is open it wont work.

So i need some code to detect whether the exe is running, and if it is, shut it down so that i can rename it.

This is a really important aspect to my program as it is very likely that the exe is open at the time.

Thanks very much, I'm sure i wrote something like this in vb6. I'll try to see if i still have it.

You can query a process by it's name . Here I'm shutting down an application named "matrix" .

VB Code:

Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal 
e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
 
        Dim p As Process
        For Each p In Process.GetProcesses
            Me.ListBox1.Items.Add(p.ProcessName)
            If p.ProcessName = "matrix" Then
                p.Kill()
                If p.HasExited Then
                    MessageBox.Show("Process was terminated successfully")
                End If
            End If
        Next
 
End Sub

thanks very much.

that looks way easier than what i thought it would! I was expecting some complex api calls.

i'll try it later, i'm very depressed at the moment tho.

thanks again