C# - Making a Process.Start wait until the process has start-up

Question

I need to make sure that a process is running before moving on with a method.

The statement is:

Process.Start("popup.exe"); 

Can you do a WAIT command or set a delay on this value?

Answer 1

Do you mean wait until it's done? Then use Process.WaitForExit:

var process = new Process {     StartInfo = new ProcessStartInfo {         FileName = "popup.exe"     } }; process.Start(); process.WaitForExit(); 

Alternatively, if it's an application with a UI that you are waiting to enter into a message loop, you can say:

process.Start(); process.WaitForInputIdle(); 

Lastly, if neither of these apply, just Thread.Sleep for some reasonable amount of time:

process.Start(); Thread.Sleep(1000); // sleep for one second