[zellist]

Hi guys,

I've got a query to ask. I'm currently research on a new project and is not very familiar with VS.net. I wanna know if I can insert a command from our command prompt into VS.net.

E.g. I've a button on VS.net and a textarea to display the result. Onclick the button; let's say when they click, it will automatically type in a command into the command prompt [e.g. netstat] and the result will display on the textarea.

Is this possible with VS.net? I'll appreciate any help

[Iron_Cross]

Ok, you'd probably have to use the Process or ProcessStartInfo classes. You'd send in the program "netstat" as the program to execute along with the arguments. You'd also have to add a special argument to redirect the output ("netstat -an > someFile.txt") then on the Process class you'd call the WaitForExit() method. Then you'd open and read all the contents of that file into your text area.

That would probably be the easiest way to do it.

It'd look something like this:

ProcessStartInfo l_psi = new ProcessStartInfo("Netstat");
l_psi.Arguments = "-an > SomeFile.txt";

Process.Start(l_psi);
Process.WaitForExt();

// Read in the contents of the SomeFile.txt here
// and print it to the text area

[zellist]

Hi Cross,

Thanks for your info. So, ProcessStartInfo is something already in the library already? I'll give it a try when i reach home.