Question

I am working on a c#/soap/php project where the php web interface will do a soap request to determine if the console application is running.

The soap request calls a function that gets the processes and then loops through to determine if the process name contains EmailServer. However, this is never being found even though I can see the process EmailServer.exe in Task Manager. I’ve also put a breakpoint so I can look through what processes is in the array and EmailServer is not there.

I’m running Windows 7 x64 with .net framework 3.5 and I am logged in as Administrator account so it can’t be a permissions problem.

Below is a screenshot which shows my process running in Task Manager

Below is the code that gets the process list

public bool checkIfProcessIsRunning()
        {
            Process[] processes = Process.GetProcesses();
            foreach (Process process in processes)
            {
                if (process.ProcessName.ToLower().Contains("EmailServer"))
                {
                    return true;
                }
                else
                {
                    return false;
                }
            }
            return false;
        }

Thanks for any help you can provide.

Answer 1

process.ProcessName.ToLower().Contains(“EmailServer”)

You’re checking if an all lowercase string contains a string with uppercase characters.