Question

How to get the PID if you know the Image Name

VB.NET 2005 Express Edition, Batch, PID, Product ID, Visual Basic 2005

For a program to work I need the PID of an other program, of wich I only know the Image Name.

The reason I need the PID: I want to activate/'bring to front'/focus the other program, to do this I need the PID (or an other way of doing this).

I'm makeing my program with VB.NET 2005 (Express Edition), but the sulotion to activate an other programm, of wich I only know the Image Name, may also be a batch file or somethingelse, as long as my program can (make) it run.

Hello, in VBScript+WMI you can do this with the following code:

Function FindPID(MyProcess)
 	Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\.\root\cimv2")
 	Set colProcessList = objWMIService.ExecQuery("Select * from Win32_Process")
 	For Each objProcess in colProcessList
 		If objProcess.Name = MyProcess Then
 	    	Result = objProcess.ProcessID 
 	    End if
 	Next
 End Function
 

I hope this helps.