Question

I have created a .bat file that displays all the users logged in Windows Terminal Services.
I can execute the .bat file in my c# code behind and display the results in plain text in a label or text box. What i would like to do is data bind the user name and the session ID in a data grid.

  protected void Button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    System.Diagnostics.ProcessStartInfo psi = new System.Diagnostics.ProcessStartInfo(@"C:\listfiles.bat");
    psi.RedirectStandardOutput = true;
    psi.WindowStyle = System.Diagnostics.ProcessWindowStyle.Hidden;
    psi.UseShellExecute = false;
    System.Diagnostics.Process listFiles;
    listFiles = System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(psi);
    System.IO.StreamReader myOutput = listFiles.StandardOutput;
    listFiles.WaitForExit(2000);
     if (listFiles.HasExited)
       {
        string output = myOutput.ReadToEnd();
        // this.TextBox1.Text = output;
        }

  }

Answer 1

You could try something like this:

        string[] input = myOutput.ReadToEnd().Split('\n');

        DataTable table = new DataTable();

        table.Columns.Add(new DataColumn("UserName", typeof(string)));
        table.Columns.Add(new DataColumn("SessionId", typeof(string)));

        foreach (string item in input)
        {
            DataRow row = table.NewRow();
            row[0] = item.Split(',')[0];
            row[1] = item.Split(',')[1];
            table.Rows.Add(row);
        }

        myGridView.DataSource = table;

        // for WebForms:
        myGridView.DataBind();

Of course you’ll want to:

• do some error checking (I made a lot of assumptions in the sample)
• make sure the user name is before session ID
• also make sure you have a DataGrid (myGridView) to bind to
• Check that your output is indeed newline and comma delimited
• If not, then update the chars in code
• Also… i made this less efficient on purpose to show the process