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Asked: 2026-05-26T06:53:13+00:00

I am trying to build a Windows 8 metro-style app that will operate as

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I am trying to build a Windows 8 “metro-style” app that will operate as a “app killer”. For those of you who have used Win8 (Tech Preview) you’ll notice that once you open a metro-style app you cannot close it (without going into Task Manager and ending the process).

My challenge is that I cannot access ‘System.Diagnostics.Process’ from my metro-style app, nor do I know if there is an comparable alternative within the WinRT. I also thought of building a separate app that hosts a service for my metro app to interface with, but I’d like to do this with a single app.

Fundamentally, I am looking for a pattern for building Metro-style apps that leverage .NET 4.0 components, specifically to be able to enumerate and kill other processes running on the PC.

CLARIFICATION: I am less concerned with this specific application than I am with access that type of .NET functionality within a Metro-style app

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  1. Editorial Team

    To your specific question, this functionality is not available. Apps are not allowed to interact or interfere with other apps.

    To answer your more general question, the APIs available to Metro style applications is limited compared to what is available to desktop applications. C# has a subset of the .Net library available, much like Silverlight does. The same is true for C++ where a subset of the desktop Win32/COM APIs are available.

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