Question

I have the following code for a button click event. This event should open the command window and execute the application:

private void start_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            if (textBox1.Text == " " || textBox2.Text == " ")
            {
                MessageBox.Show("Header File or Executable Missing");
            }
            else
            {
                Process.Start(textBox1.Text);
                ProcessStartInfo startInfo = new ProcessStartInfo();
                startInfo.FileName = textBox1.Text;
                string filename = textBox1.Text;
                int found = filename.LastIndexOf("\\");
                int end = filename.Length;
                string temp = filename.Substring(found);
                startInfo.Arguments = temp + textBox2.Text;
                Process.Start(startInfo);
            }
        }

The problem that I’m facing out here is that when I click the button, the command window does not persist and I don’t know whether the command window displays an error message or not because it opens & closes in a flash. Can anybody tell me what is going wrong here and give me a few hints how to go about solving the issue?

Answer 1

If you want to start a new console application from your Windows Forms application you need to either pass in the path to such an application or to cmd.exe + the run command for that application. Make sure the code in your console application halts by asking for a Console.ReadKey(true) or similar.