How do I kill a process with the .NET framework?

Question

I'm writing an application in C#, and I'd like to close some other application—Internet Explorer, say. I've seen a lot of results for how to close the application you're building, but I want close an external program and I'm not sure where to start.

What part of the .NET framework would I use to do this?

If you know the process name, you can kill it, [there's a kill method](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.diagnostics.process.kill.aspx). — Pierre-Luc Pineault, Dec 06 '13 at 03:38

shreyansp · Accepted Answer · 2013-12-06T05:02:52.403

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You can kill the processes that match a specific name by using System.Diagnostics.Process;:

foreach (Process clsProcess in Process.GetProcesses())
{
    if (clsProcess.ProcessName.StartsWith("iexplore"))
    {
        clsProcess.Kill();                
    }
}

edited Dec 06 '13 at 05:02

answered Dec 06 '13 at 03:44

shreyansp

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How do I kill a process with the .NET framework?

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