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Kill a Process in C# with Example

Kill a Process in C# with Example

Anonymous User 78121 27-Aug-2011

Kill a Process in C# with Example

Sometimes we want to terminate or kill a process, which is already running or previously created process. To kill the process in c sharp use System. Diagnostics namespaces and use named ‘Kill()’ method which is available in Process class.

Here I am giving an example to kill the process. Let’s see a brief description of it. Example:  Here I am creating a process and after 2 seconds killed it.

To kill the previously created process writes the following code.

using System.Diagnostics;
namespace ConsoleProcessTest
{
    class Program
    {
        static voidMain(string[] args)
        {
              // create the  process to launch another exe file
            Process myProcess= Process.Start(@"C:\Users\Sachindra\Desktop\Logic.exe");
 
            // take 2 second to kill the process
            Thread.Sleep(2000);
            // kill the process
            myProcess.Kill();
 
        }
      
    } 
  
}

After debug this code your Logic.exe executable file will execute and after 2 seconds it will close.

To kill the already running process:

To kill the already running process writes the following code.

using System.Diagnostics;
 
namespace AllreadyRunningProcess
{
    class Program
    {
        static voidMain(string[] args)
        {
            // Store all running process in the system
            Process[] runingProcess= Process.GetProcesses();
            for (inti=0; i<runingProcess.Length; i++)
            {
                // compare equivalent process by their name
                if(runingProcess[i].ProcessName=="mspaint")
                {
                    // kill  running process
                   runingProcess[i].Kill();
                }
     
            }
           
           
        }
    }
}

After debugging the code if the ‘MSPaint’ process is running then it will close.


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