Using MSDN I got the class to write a wrapper for my command line tool.
I now am facing a problem, if I execute the exe through the command line with arguments, it works perfect without any errors.
But when I try to pass the arguments from the Wrapper it crashes the program.
Wanted to know if I am passing the arguments properly and if I am wrong, could somebody point out please. This is the LaunchEXE class from MSDN
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Diagnostics;
using System.IO;
namespace SPDB
{
/// <summary>
/// Class to run any external command line tool with arguments
/// </summary>
public class LaunchEXE
{
internal static string Run(string exeName, string argsLine, int timeoutSeconds)
{
StreamReader outputStream = StreamReader.Null;
string output = "";
bool success = false;
try
{
Process newProcess = new Process();
newProcess.StartInfo.FileName = exeName;
newProcess.StartInfo.Arguments = argsLine;
newProcess.StartInfo.UseShellExecute = false;
newProcess.StartInfo.CreateNoWindow = true; //The command line is supressed to keep the process in the background
newProcess.StartInfo.RedirectStandardOutput = true;
newProcess.Start();
if (0 == timeoutSeconds)
{
outputStream = newProcess.StandardOutput;
output = outputStream.ReadToEnd();
newProcess.WaitForExit();
}
else
{
success = newProcess.WaitForExit(timeoutSeconds * 1000);
if (success)
{
outputStream = newProcess.StandardOutput;
output = outputStream.ReadToEnd();
}
else
{
output = "Timed out at " + timeoutSeconds + " seconds waiting for " + exeName + " to exit.";
}
}
}
catch (Exception e)
{
throw (new Exception("An error occurred running " + exeName + ".", e));
}
finally
{
outputStream.Close();
}
return "\t" + output;
}
}
}
This is the way I am passing arguments from my main program (Form1.cs)
private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
string output;
output = LaunchEXE.Run(@"C:\Program Files (x86)\MyFolder\MyConsole.exe", "/BACKUP C:\\MyBackupProfile.txt", 100);
System.Windows.Forms.MessageBox.Show(output);
}
The command line tool accepts the following command and works perfectly:
C:\Program Files (x86)\MyFolder>MyConsole.exe /BACKUP C:\MyBackupProfile.txt
StartInfo.WorkingDirectoryit uses the one of the calling program. Is the only difference I see from calling "MyConsole.exe" from a console. So you can try addingnewProcess.StartInfo.WorkingDirectory = Directory.GetParent(exeName).FullName;– Ronald