Getting the name of what program ran an console app

Question

I need to get the name of the program that launched a console application i am making in Visual studio. Any ideas on how i can do this?

I am doing this so i can see for how long robots in out company is running and when they are running.

Find the console app in the process list, then find its parent. See [How to get parent process in .NET in managed way](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/394816/how-to-get-parent-process-in-net-in-managed-way) for details. — David Arno, Jun 27 '17 at 08:23

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 27 '17 at 08:16

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If you can modify the call of the console application, you can give the program name as an argument.

answered Jun 27 '17 at 08:16

thi

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It is only the application beeing launched i can modify. – Leethemor Jun 27 '17 at 08:30
how do the other application launch yours ? Is the call hardcoded ? Because if it's not, you can always specify new arguments in the calling string. – thi Jun 27 '17 at 08:38

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 27 '17 at 08:35

You can get the parent process of some other process like this:

public static Process GetParentProcess(Process process)
{
    string query = "SELECT ParentProcessId FROM Win32_Process WHERE ProcessId = " + process.Id;
    using (ManagementObjectSearcher mos = new ManagementObjectSearcher(query))
    {
        foreach (ManagementObject mo in mos.Get())
        {
            if (mo["ParentProcessId"] != null)
            {
                try
                {
                    var id = Convert.ToInt32(mo["ParentProcessId"]);
                    return Process.GetProcessById(id);
                }
                catch
                {
                }
            }
        }
    }
    return null;
}

Inside your console app you would use it like

var parent = GetParentProcess(Process.GetCurrentProcess());

From this you can get all information about parent process.

Getting the name of what program ran an console app

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