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Hi everyone, I ran into a road block and cant seem to find anything on google.

I need to check all open windows/processes to see if certain software is running on the system. I was going to go the route of using core api from user32 for findwindow and so on, but then I came across using Process.Getproc esses and was very happy to see it was easy to get all processes and MainWindowTitle

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  1.         Dim poc() As Process = Process.GetProcesses()
  2.         For i As Integer = 0 To poc.Length - 1
  3.  
  4.             Try
  5.                 msgbox poc(i).mainwindowtitle
  6.  
  7.             Catch ex As Exception
  8.                 MsgBox(poc(i).ProcessName.ToString & " " & ex.Message)
  9.  
  10.             End Try
  11.  
  12.         Next
  13.  
  14.  
However... if the software has child windows or multiple windows open it does not get the title of these "sub windows". An example is an application that has 2 windows open from the same exe. Is there anyway to grab all window titles of a process using this same logic?
Nov 19 '08
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Nukefusion,
This did exactly what I needed it to do. Very helpful.
Being that most people say to avoid the Win32 API's from .NET, it'd be helpful if there was a way to do this within .NET itself - but either way, this was exactly what I was looking for.
Thank you!
Oct 4 '10 #21

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