Getting a path of a running process by name

Question

How can I get a path of a running process by name? For example, I know there is a process named "notepad" running, and I want to get the path of it. How to get the path without looping through all other processes?

Not this way!

using System.Diagnostics;

foreach (Process PPath in Process.GetProcesses())
{
    if (PPath.ProcessName.ToString() == "notepad")
    {
        string fullpath = PPath.MainModule.FileName;
        Console.WriteLine(fullpath);
    }
}

Answer 1

Try something like this method, which uses the GetProcessesByName method:

public string GetProcessPath(string name)
{
    Process[] processes = Process.GetProcessesByName(name);

    if (processes.Length > 0)
    {
        return processes[0].MainModule.FileName;
    }
    else
    {
        return string.Empty;
    }
}

Keep in mind though, that multiple processes can have the same name, so you still might need to do some digging. I'm just always returning the first one's path here.