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Interacting with Processes Under the 

.NET Platform

Although processes and threads are nothing new, the manner in which we interact with these

primitives under the .NET platform has changed quite a bit (for the better). To pave the way to

understanding the world of building multithreaded assemblies (see Chapter 18), let’s begin by

checking out how to interact with processes using the .NET base class libraries.

The System.Diagnostics namespace defines a number of types that allow you to programmati-

cally interact with processes and various diagnostic-related types such as the system event log and

performance counters. In this chapter, we are only concerned with the process-centric types

defined in Table 17-1.