Question

I have a button that when clicked is running a CMD prompt:

    private void PingCommand_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        string strCmdText;
        strCmdText = "";
        System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("CMD.exe", strCmdText); 
    } 

What I’d like to happen is before the command prompt is opened I’d like a box to appear where I can specify the Hostname/IP that is to be ping’d – is this possible and if so how would I do this?

OR if possible the Hostname/IP address to be set for multiple buttons; ie. ping, map home drive and so on!

Thanks

Answer 1

You can use the following code, it will run the ping command and return the result to the result variable. You need to change the path to ping.exe.

var fileName = "C:\\path-to\\ping.exe";
var arguments = txtHostname.Text;

var processStartInfo = new ProcessStartInfo(fileName ,  arguments);
processStartInfo.CreateNoWindow = true;
processStartInfo.RedirectStandardOutput = true;
processStartInfo.UseShellExecute = false;
using (var process = Process.Start(processStartInfo)) {
    using (var streamReader = new StreamReader(process.StandardOutput.BaseStream, Encoding.UTF8)){
        while (!streamReader.EndOfStream) 
        {
            listBox1.Items.Add(streamReader.ReadLine());
        }
    }
}