"OSWatcher" class

[John Spiegel]

Hi all,

Not sure if there is anything, but I'm looking for direction on how I might
track the topmost process on my PC. Basically, I'm looking to build a
service that would monitor for any time a different window was fronted with
the idea being that it would be a quick estimator of where I'm spending all
my time (ore figuring out where all my time is going!)

If there's a "current processes" class that acts like the FileSystemWatcher,
it would seem rather simple. But I can't seem to find anything I can latch
onto the event of a process "coming forward".

Any directions?

TIA,

John

 

[Guest]

You can take a look into WMI (Windows Management Instrumentation). Do a
google search and also here on MSDN. Very powerful you can do a lot more than
just monitor the top application!!

 

[Guest]

There is a grear article about WMI with .NET here

Monitoring Application Health with WMI and .NE
http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dnhcvs04/html/vs04d6a.asp

Regards,
Leon

 

[Guest]

This could by maybe helpful...You can use the perfomance counters to monitor
an asp.net application, including the procesess, application restarts,
worker process restarts, etc (there is a large number of counters!).

There is a great article here:

ASP.NET Performance Monitoring, and When to Alert Administrator
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnaspp/html/monitor_perf.asp

Regards,
Leon

 

[John Spiegel]

Thanks, Alex and Leon...Just the kinda stuff I was looking for.