Running a program in a loop

Not quite sure if I should be posting this in the Windows Programming area or this one but I'll try here.

I have 2 projects going, both executables. Project 1 uses project 2 in it's loop to get file information from specified directories. When I use it in a loop it can open hundreds of times (obviously 1 for every file is found). They all terminate after they've completed their tasks but it's absolutely horrible for the resources.
Is there a quick code to add into my loops that will wait for that process to finish before opening a new one?

I was thinking about using another function which verifies the file information was successfully read then runs it again but that creates the problem of errors popping up all over the place (only because that's how I have set my catches).

For example:

Code:

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//up here is where I get all files in folder
//then for each file found that is in my string project2.exe is run
foreach(string file in getfInfo)
{
Process.Start("project2.exe", filename)
}

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I should almost send a screenshot of all the windows popping up and closing! It's like a little circus on my desktop!

Thanks,

If you need the real code I'll post it but I think it's probably not necessary.

---Rob Sitter
[Professional At Novice]

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Is there a quick code to add into my loops that will wait for that process to finish before opening a new one?

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If you use CreateProcess() to create your new processes, you can then use WaitForSingleObject() to wait until that process has ended before continuing.

EDIT: Bah, nevermind. I thought I was in the Windows Programming forum, not the C# forum :)

The FAQ has some C++ stuff: http://faq.cprogramming.com/cgi-bin/...&id=1043284392

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Is there a quick code to add into my loops that will wait for that process to finish before opening a new one?

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Code:

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Process myProcess;
foreach(string file in getfInfo)
{
        myProcess = Process.Start("project2.exe", filename)
                while (!myProcess.HasExited)
                myProcess.Refresh();   
          myProcess.Close();
}

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Hey there, haven't logged in here in a while, noticed your posts, really appreciate them a lot!

Thanks again,

Rob Sitter
[Professional at novice (almost intermediate lol)]

Well, it works to a degree but,

While it's waiting for the program to exit it ups the processor usage to 100% so if I'm running a program for any length of time it's almost going to double the time it would take for it to exit.
Is there a way to set the interval for which it checks to see if the program is still running?

Thanks again,

Rob Sitter

Possibly....

Code:

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Process myProcess;
foreach(string file in getfInfo)
{
myProcess = Process.Start("project2.exe", filename)
    while (!myProcess.HasExited)
              myProcess.Refresh();   
      Thread.Sleep(3000);  // 3 second wait   
    myProcess.Close();
}

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great idea - thanks

i tried to do this this way:

Code:

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while(true){ ... }

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but this solution is better