Retrieve File Path ?

[BLUE_SEA]

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

Thank you.

[Hack]

Welcome to the forums.

What do you mean by "foreign process"?

[BLUE_SEA]

Welcome to the forums.

What do you mean by "foreign process"?

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.

[Half]

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.

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.

[Hack]

Is this what you mean?