Question

I seem to be a bit confused how the following call works:

string str = Process.GetCurrentProcess().MainModule.ModuleName;

I know it’s the same as doing the following:

Process pvar = new Process();
ProcessModule pmvar = pvar.MainModule;
string str2 = pmvar.ModuleName;

But I need a detailed explanation how it’s possible to ex. call the MainModule non-static property in the class ProcessModule since I haven’t created an instanse of the Process class explicitly!

Does the GetCurrentProcess() method automatically create an instanse to work on, since it’s not required to do so?

Answer 1

You haven’t created an instance of Process, but this returns one for you:

Process process = Process.GetCurrentProcess();

That’s very different from the new Process() call you’ve got in the second snippet. So your first statement is actually equivalent to:

Process process = Process.GetCurrentProcess();
ProcessModule module = process.MainModule;
string moduleName = module.ModuleName;

GetCurrentProcess() returns a reference to a Process object representing the currently executing process.