Hi !

I want to determine how many instances of an application is running while launching the application. Can you plz give me some tips on this ?

Thanks in advance.

dev(1);

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dev(1);

Depends. Are you trying to determine if an instance of a program you are starting is already running or are you trying to write a program that will determine how many instances of x program are running?

Also, you have been posting here very frequently which is great, but try and do some research on your queries before you come and post here. You have been pretty good with posting relevant code and telling us what you have and have not done to correct your problem, but in the case of the question you posed above, you could have easily gone to google to look up information about this type of thing.

hth

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Hi!!

I greatly honour & appreciate your efforts towards solving problems posted by me & others like me. However it seems like i have disapointed you. You people have been so nice to me answering all of my posts and that is the reason why i come back to here whenever i get a problem. Google is great but you get a lot of garbage with it unless you r lucky.

Anyway I will keep your suggestion in my mind.

Thank you very much.




dev(1);

You didn't answer my question about exactly what you are trying to do...

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I need to find out how many instances of the same application are already running.



dev(1);

I think what Doug was asking can be inferred from your original post:

You have application X. When application X launches, you want to see if, and how many, additional instances of application X are already running.

The alternative is: From application X, I want to see how many instance of application Y are running.

You are asking for the first one correct?

-Peter

yes that right. I want to know how many instances of app x are running from app x.


dev(1);

Ok. Read up on the Process class, it should provide you with the information you need =]

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