hi folks,
I'm trying to check whether or not an application is running by testing whether a COM object exists for a given file (I can't use Process.GetProcessesByName() as the file I need to test is not the exe itself; we have a generic environment which runs a number of such apps and I need to be able to distinguish between them). In C++ I would attempt to bind to it and check whether or not I succeeded, though I'm unsure how to achieve the same thing with C#.
At first I thought this might work:
Code:
object obj = null;
try
{
obj = System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal.BindToMoniker(filemoniker);
but as you probably know that actually causes my application to run. So far googling hasn't helped, so any feedback would be much appreciated!
Ed.
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check whether COM object exists
