Determine if external application is running in MFC

[Rmck87]

Hi, I'm programming with C++ using a dialog-based MFC application. I need to create a program with a button that when pressed, will tell me if another application is currently running. I'm not sure if there is a function to use to figure this out or not. But, I was reading something that said not to use findwindow, as it is not a very good method.

The other application is another program I wrote that will crash, but continue running somehow, so I need to write a program to run a few tests on my other program.

Thanks for the help!

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[ArkM]

Try EnumProcesses then OpenProcess and EnumProcessModules Window API functions to recognize a suspicious application (see MSDN for code examples).

 

[Rmck87]

Thank you, I got it figured out, those worked well!

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