close the parent process when hotkey is pressed.

[Tarwada]

[FONT=&quot][FONT=&quot]hello. first of all, sorry for such a newbie question.[/FONT][/FONT]
[FONT=&quot][FONT=&quot]i've made a simple app that will download an exe from a server then execute it as child, the child will close the parent by it's file name if "Esc" key is pressed (regular process kill). is there a way in C# to make that child close the parent regardless of what its name ?.[/FONT][/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]thanks in advanced.:joyous:[/FONT]

 

[jmcilhinney]

So, the child application is written is C#? There's no direct way to get the parent of a process via the Process class but you can find some other options here:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/394816/how-to-get-parent-process-in-net-in-managed-way

 

[Tarwada]

So, the child application is written is C#? There's no direct way to get the parent of a process via the Process class but you can find some other options here:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/394816/how-to-get-parent-process-in-net-in-managed-way

my child app was written in Autoit3, i don't mind having this job done by any other language

 

[jmcilhinney]

In that case, this is not a C# programming question so it is not appropriate for this site. The fact that the application you want closed was written in C# is irrelevant because it's the application doing the closing that needs the code modification.

The one possible exception to that is if you want to modify the child application to accept the process ID of its parent as a commandline argument and then use that to close it, so the name doesn't matter. In that case, you can change the parent application to get its process ID and pass that as an argument when it runs the child. The changes to the child are still not a topic for this site though.