Question

Visual Studio 2010
C#

Is it possible to run and close a program from commandline? I need to do something like that:

myProgram.exe -start
-- do something --
myProgram.exe -stop

I know how to implement the first part (String[] args in main) but how can I close my running program?

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Edit

myProgram.exe is handling some UDP communication and have to be executed while the stuff in — do something — is executed. Sorry for beeing imprecise.

Answer 1

I’m guessing you know how to inspect the command line arguments and find if stop has been specified? The following should do the job.

        var currentProcess = System.Diagnostics.Process.GetCurrentProcess();
        var matchingProcesses = System.Diagnostics.Process.GetProcesses().Where(x => x.Id != currentProcess.Id && x.ProcessName == currentProcess.ProcessName);
        foreach (var process in matchingProcesses) {
            process.Kill();
        }