setting app to top priority

[fguihen]

you know where in task manager you can set the priority of a thread, so it gets max cpu time, well is there any way to do that in c# code to make my app top priority??

[HJB417]

There are several ways to approach it.

Here's an example of 2 ways.

1 uses the process name to set the thread priority of all of the threads in all of the processes with the matching name.

2 uses the process id to set the thread priority of all of the threads found in a specific process id.

 

static void SetPriority(string processName, System.Threading.ThreadPriority priority)
{
if(processName == null)
	throw new ArgumentNullException("processName");
System.Diagnostics.Process[] proccesses = System.Diagnostics.Process.GetProcessesByName(processName);
foreach(System.Diagnostics.Process process in proccesses)
		foreach(System.Threading.Thread thread in process.Threads)
			thread.Priority = priority;
}

static void SetPriority(int processId, System.Threading.ThreadPriority priority)
{
System.Diagnostics.Process process = System.Diagnostics.Process.GetProcessById(processId);
foreach(System.Threading.Thread thread in process.Threads)
	thread.Priority = priority;
}