Retrieve File Path ?

How do retrieve the path of a File open in a foreign process ?

Thank you.

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:confused: What do you mean by "foreign process"?

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Originally Posted by Hack

Welcome to the forums. :wave:

:confused: What do you mean by "foreign process"?

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I mean a running application . It could be Word, Excel, NotePad ...

However, I do not want to use Automation for this as not every application supports it.

Thanks.

To get the file path you can use the mainmodule property of the process class. I used winamp in the example. Note that GetProcessesByName creates an array and populates it. An array, because there can be more than one processes with the same name - like 3 notepad windows.

VB Code:

Dim Proc As Process() = Process.GetProcessesByName("winamp")
 
lbl1.Text = Proc(0).MainModule.FileName

EDIT: Upsss, I noticed too late it is the API section. Still, you can do it this way without API calls.

Is this what you mean?