How to stop process in C#, knowing its filename?

Question

I have a programm that runs another one (lets call the first app Stater and the second app - Worker).

I use

process.start();
process.waiForExit();
process.Close();

in Starter.

But if Starter is forced to close while waiting for Worker (for some extern reason) Worker will be still in processes, blocking files, eating memory etc.

So, I want to check if Worker is already running before I will try to start it. I've tried Process.GetProcessesByName("worker.exe") but no luck (even if I can see Worker in Task Manager).

I've seen some topics here about checking every process in memory for its modules, but still I already know the running file I hope to avoid such solution.

Any advices?

Answer 1

The reason you cannot find it is because you're using .exe. If the executable shows up as worker.exe in TaskManager, just call:

Process[] workers = Process.GetProcessesByName("worker")
foreach (Process worker in workers)
{
     worker.Kill();
     worker.WaitForExit();
     worker.Dispose();
}