Question

i wan to create a program that can get the application name
i can start the program but cant get the program name

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a = Process.Start("calc").Handle<br/>
MsgBox(a)<br/>
MsgBox(Process.GetProcessById(a).ToSt</ br>ring)<br/>
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it show Process with an Id of 1796 is not running, but the program already opened

Answer 1

Handle!=Id, and ToString() won’t give you the process name:

Dim a = Process.Start("calc").Id
MsgBox(a)
MsgBox(Process.GetProcessById(a).ProcessName)

Displays a process ID in one message box, then “calc” in the next.

If you had Option Strict On, you’d have received a warning already about your mixup between Handle and Id, since Handle returns an IntPtr, but GetProcessById expects an Integer.