Introduction
This article provides a simple example of how to use the System.Diagnostics.Process library to display a list of running processes, and to select and kill processes by their process name and ID. It would not be a major trick to display additional information about the process using the same library or to kill processes by their ID or name alone rather than their name and ID but in this example, process names and IDs are used for display purposes and the purpose of killing a running process.
Figure 1: Listing and Killing Processes by Process Name and ID
Getting Started
There is a single solution included with this download, the solution contains a Win Forms project called “ProcessKillerVB”; this project contains one form (Form1.vb) and all of the code required to display and kill processes is contained within that single form class. If you open the attached project into Visual Studio 2008; you should see the following in the solution explorer:
