How to find the PID of a open program

Question

I am trying to figure out how to find the PID, of for example notepad.exe. I have googled this, and I found lots of stuff, but I can't quite unterstand it. I've tried this code:

Dim currentProcess As Process = Process.GetCurrentProcess()
Dim localAll As Process() = Process.GetProcesses()
Dim localByName As Process() = Process.GetProcessesByName("notepad")
Label1.Text = localByName.ToString 

But when executed, I get system.diagnostics.process[] as output in label1. I am quite noob in vb.net still, and can't seem to find the problem here.

Answer 1

GetProcessesByName returns an array. You may have multiple Notepads running, but here is how you'd get the id of the first.

Dim currentProcess As Process = Process.GetCurrentProcess()
Dim localAll As Process() = Process.GetProcesses()
Dim localByName As Process() = Process.GetProcessesByName("notepad")

'Do this
Label1.Text = localByName(0).Id

or

'Find all!
for each proc in localByName
   Label1.Text &= proc.Id & vbCrLf 'vbCrlf just adds a new line for reading purposes
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