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\");

Can y

Answer 1

Are you sure the Start method returns before the child process starts? I was always under the impression that Start starts the child process synchronously.

If you want to wait until your child process finishes some sort of initialization then you need inter-process communication - see Interprocess communication for Windows in C# (.NET 2.0).