How to get running active applications and working hours per application?

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Now I get the list of running applications using c# windows App.

How to get worked Hours for application using c#.net? For Example I have worked 8 hours a day then 4hours for Visual studio and 4 hours for Excelsheet. I want to get these information in C#.net windows applications

Please let me know if anybody knows.

Thanks.

Posted 19-Jan-15 19:15pm

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Updated 20-Jan-15 18:52pm

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Sinisa Hajnal 21-Jan-15 2:08am

Somebody always knows. But your question should offer sample data and expected output. Also, repository techonology. It's not the same if you have XML file as repository and SQL Server or DB2.

Is there something unclear with my solution?

24983 22-Jan-15 2:27am

Hi please find below example, Can we get it from C# windows application and as well as run on background process.
I need output below,
Application WorkingHours
-----------------------------------
Visual studio ----- 2
notepad -------- 2
MS Sqlserver--------- 4

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Sinisa Hajnal · Answer 1 · 2015-01-19T20:11:00

Have a service or small always active program that will poll the processes and write the start times into the storage (database / file / whatever).

When, in the next poll the process is not found, you write END time.

Finally, you select from the storage and calculate time diff and sumarize it over the day (so you could have two excel starts and ends for two hours each)

Refinements: have a lookup table with the list of time tracked applications so that only those in the list are tracked.

Refinement2: use windows system hooks, there is a good article on CP somewhere.

If this helps please take time to accept the solution. Thank you.