C# Source Code: A light weight alternative to Process.GetCurrentProcess().ProcessName
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A light weight alternative to Process.GetCurrentProcess().ProcessName
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Andrew Baker
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Thursday, March 29, 2007
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Unfortunately, the following (seemingly harmless code) requires administrator rights (and on Windows 2003 you will need to be member of "Performance Monitor Users" group): System.Diagnostics.Process.GetCurrentProcess().ProcessName In most cases this is not appropriate and certainly not in a Citrix environment. If you call it withouth the correct permissions you the following stack dump: Unhandled exception in EntryPoint: System.InvalidOperationException: Couldn't get process information from remote machine. ---> System.ComponentModel.Win32Exception: Access is denied at System.Diagnostics.PerformanceMonitor.GetData(String item) at System.Diagnostics.PerformanceCounterLib.GetPerformanceData(String item) at System.Diagnostics.PerformanceCounterLib.get_CategoryTable() at System.Diagnostics.PerformanceCounterLib.GetPerformanceData(String[] categories, Int32[] categoryIndexes) at System.Diagnostics.NtProcessManager.GetProcessInfos(PerformanceCounterLib library) --- End of inner exception stack trace --- at System.Diagnostics.NtProcessManager.GetProcessInfos(PerformanceCounterLib library) at System.Diagnostics.NtProcessManager.GetProcessInfos(String machineName, Boolean isRemoteMachine) at System.Diagnostics.ProcessManager.GetProcessInfos(String machineName) at System.Diagnostics.Process.EnsureState(State state) at System.Diagnostics.Process.get_ProcessName() Below is a light weight alternative to System.Diagnostics.Process.GetCurrentProcess().ProcessName and does not require any special permissions: /// <summary> /// Returns the starting process name (same as System.Diagnostics.Process.GetCurrentProcess().ProcessName), /// but doesn't require any admin rights. /// </summary> /// <returns>Returns the starting process name.</returns> public static string GetCurrentProcessNameLite() { string procName = new System.IO.FileInfo(System.Reflection.Assembly.GetEntryAssembly().Location).Name; if (procName.ToLower().IndexOf(".exe") > -1) { // Remove the ".exe" extension procName = procName.Substring(0, procName.Length - 4); } return procName; }
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