Checks if a process is open.

IsOpen .NET Method

  private static bool IsOpen(string pName) // Checks if a given process with the "friendly name" (that is, the process without ".exe" appended) is open. Returns false if it is closed, true if it is open.
  {
    Process[] processArray = Process.GetProcessesByName(pName); // Make an array of processes (the data type) of all of the running processes with the "friendly name"
    if (processArray.Length == 0) // Does the array have a length of zero?
        return false; // If it does, there are no processes with the given "friendly name", therefore return false.
    else
      return true;
  }