Question

I have the following code:

var psi = new ProcessStartInfo();

psi.FileName = @"C:\gw\gw.exe";
psi.WorkingDirectory=@"C:\gw";

Process process = Process.Start(psi);

For some reason, the gw.exe process is crashing on startup. Windows just says “This program has been shut down” and has the usual “Looking for a solution online” box and it just crashes.

When I launch gw.exe from Windows explorer, it executes just fine. It is a WPF application and it runs just fine outside of my program. Anyone have any suggestions?

Answer 1

Your code is not how one starts a process:

Console.WriteLine("Running"); 
Process pr = new Process(); 
pr.StartInfo.FileName = "Notepad.exe"; 
pr.StartInfo.Arguments = "test.dat"; 
pr.Start(); 
while (pr.HasExited == false)     
   if ((DateTime.Now.Second % 5) == 0)     
   { 
      // Show a tick every five seconds.         
      Console.Write(".");         
      System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(1000);     
}

I go into further detail in my blog post How to Launch an External Application in C#: