Running this code as an administrator, you can use the following snippet as a method for determining the nature of a process on Windows 8 and whether it would seem that the running process is running in the new Modern UI shell (metro).<\/p>\n
static void <\/span>Main(<\/span>string<\/span>[] args)\n{ \n <\/span>var <\/span>allProcesses = <\/span>Process<\/span>.GetProcesses().Where(p =>\n {\n <\/span>try\n <\/span>{\n <\/span>var <\/span>pid = p.Id;\n <\/span>var <\/span>modules = p.Modules.Cast<<\/span>ProcessModule<\/span>>()\n .Where(m => m.FileName.Contains(<\/span>"System.Runtime.WindowsRuntime"<\/span>));\n <\/span>return <\/span>modules.Count() > 0;\n }\n <\/span>catch <\/span>{ <\/span>return false<\/span>; }\n }).OrderBy(p => p.MainModule.FileName).ToList();\n \n <\/span>for <\/span>(<\/span>int <\/span>i = 0; i < allProcesses.Count(); i++)\n {\n <\/span>var <\/span>p = allProcesses[i];\n <\/span>Console<\/span>.WriteLine(<\/span>string<\/span>.Format(<\/span>"{0}. {1}"<\/span>, i, p.MainModule.FileName));\n }\n <\/span>Console<\/span>.ReadKey();\n}<\/span><\/pre>\nModern UI \/ Metro applications are protected and cannot be easily interrogated by a non-administrative process. While you can get some basics about all processes, a standard user process isn\u2019t allowed to look at the loaded modules for example.<\/p>\n
In the code above, all processes are scanned for a particular DLL. In this case, System.Runtime.WindowsRuntime. I\u2019m not 100% confident this is the best choice \u2026 there may be a few better options (or multiple that are required). (If you know of them, please leave a comment!). It did find the Modern UI \/ Metro applications running in my Windows 8 VM. <\/p>\n
Once gathered, the code just outputs the basics to the console. (The name of the host, which is WWAHost.exe apparently some times).<\/p>\n
Next step is to learn something useful via the process object.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Running this code as an administrator, you can use the following snippet as a method for determining the nature of a process on Windows 8 and whether it would seem that the running process is running in the new Modern UI shell (metro). static void Main(string[] args) { var allProcesses = Process.GetProcesses().Where(p => { try […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[4],"tags":[82,96],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd5QIe-rN","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1705,"url":"https:\/\/www.wiredprairie.us\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/1705","url_meta":{"origin":1723,"position":0},"title":"WinRT\/Xaml\/AKA Metro DataTemplate selection based on Data Types","date":"August 20, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"You may have noticed that WinRT does not have automatic resolution of a DataTemplate based on the data type of object added to an ItemsControl. While unfortunate as this behavior is quite handy, it\u2019s not too difficult to replicate the functionality using a DataTemplateSelector. WPF for example, could do something\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Coding"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1701,"url":"https:\/\/www.wiredprairie.us\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/1701","url_meta":{"origin":1723,"position":1},"title":"Windows 8 WinRT\/Metro Missing UpdateSourceTrigger","date":"August 5, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"If you\u2019ve done WPF or Silverlight programming, you may have found an occasion where using the Binding property UpdateSourceTrigger set to PropertyChanged was extremely useful. (I know I have!) It may have looked something like this: