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V24.1

ProcessStartPolicy.Starting Event

Fires before a process starts and allows you to cancel the process.

Namespace: DevExpress.Data.Utils

Assembly: DevExpress.Data.Desktop.v24.1.dll

NuGet Packages: DevExpress.Data.Desktop, DevExpress.ExpressApp.Win.Design

Declaration

public static event CancelEventHandler Starting

Event Data

The Starting event's data class is CancelEventArgs. The following properties provide information specific to this event:

Property Description
Cancel Gets or sets a value indicating whether the event should be canceled.

Remarks

Handle Starting and Started events to perform custom actions when a DevExpress UI control starts a process.

static void Main() {
  ProcessStartPolicy.Starting += ProcessStartPolicy_Starting;
  ProcessStartPolicy.Started += ProcessStartPolicy_Started;
  // ...
}
private static void ProcessStartPolicy_Starting(object sender, System.ComponentModel.CancelEventArgs e) {
  ProcessStartInfo psi = sender as ProcessStartInfo;
  e.Cancel = !psi.FileName.Contains("www.devexpress.com");
}
private static void ProcessStartPolicy_Started(object sender, EventArgs e) {
  Process process = sender as Process;
  // ...
  // Log.WriteMessage("process started");
}

Read the following topic for more information: Suppress New Processes Initiated by .NET Controls.

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