Detecting process crash in .NET

Question

Is there a way to determine that a process that my program started has crashed? Currently, the solution I found is to look at Process.ExitCode and examine the value:

        this.STProcess = Process.Start(this.CreateProcessStartInfo());
        this.STProcess.WaitForExit();
        if (STProcess.ExitCode != 0)
        {
            //raise error event...
        }

I wanted to know if there is a more elegant (and accurate) way of doing this?

I would prefer answers in C# and using P/Invoke is fine as well.

P.S - I need to work on windows XP/Vista/7

Answer 1

For Windows 7, there is Application Restart and Recovery API. For .NET you can use Windows API Code Pack.

Generaly, you can periodically search for process existence (watchdog application).

Answer 2

No.

Unless you can influence the process in some way (writing errors to the Eventlog? A file) you have no external way to know that a process crashed, as far as I know. For you it's just a process that went away. Not even Windows is going to keep this information anywhere I know. It doesn't exist anymore and unless the process somehow kept the details, they are gone.