C# - Making a Process.Start wait until the process has start-up

Question

I need to make sure that a process is running before moving on with a method.

The statement is:

Process.Start(\"popup.exe\");

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Answer 1

Like others have already said, it's not immediately obvious what you're asking. I'm going to assume that you want to start a process and then perform another action when the process "is ready".

Of course, the "is ready" is the tricky bit. Depending on what you're needs are, you may find that simply waiting is sufficient. However, if you need a more robust solution, you can consider using a named Mutex to control the control flow between your two processes.

For example, in your main process, you might create a named mutex and start a thread or task which will wait. Then, you can start the 2nd process. When that process decides that "it is ready", it can open the named mutex (you have to use the same name, of course) and signal to the first process.