Question

I want to dump my DB with a click on a button in my C#.Net App.
I thought about using

Process.Start(@"mysqldump", @"-u root -p mydb > dump.sql");

but this command opens a command prompt asking for the MySQL user password.

how can I avoid this?

Answer 1

Instead of this command :

mysql -u root -p mydb > dump.sql

Try using this, passing the password in the command, so mysqldump doesn’t ask for it :

mysqldump -u root --password=YOUR_PASSWORD mydb > dump.sql