Question

Im doing a project in which im including an already done program.

It has a .bat file as well as a .exe file.

Now the already done progream is in a folder ‘X’ where there are many files including

1. is a .tcl file
2. is a .exe file
3. is a .bat file.

now the when i click the .exe file it opens a dialogue box where i have to select the above mentioned .tcl file and the program executes.

now when i execute the .bat file the program executes automatically.

Now the problem is that all the files are inside a same folder. If i keep the .bat file or the .exe file out of the folder ‘X’ my already done program doesnt execute.

Now im doing a project where i have to call this so called already done program.

Im calling the .bat file or the .exe file. Inside the program using

Process.Start(@"E:\X\abc.exe");

or

Process.Start(@"E:\X\xyz.bat");

but my program doesnt execute.

so i added the whole folder ‘X’ inside my projects and tried this.

Process.Start(@"E:\Project\X\abc.exe");

or

Process.Start(@"E:\Project\X\xyz.bat");

where project is the folder where my projects get saved. Also note im using windows application.

both ways i dont get result.

I have kept the process.start for the button click event.

During the button click if i have

Process.Start(@"E:\Project\X\xyz.bat");

i get blink of the cmd prompt and nothing happens.

when i have

Process.Start(@"E:\Project\X\abc.exe");

i get the dialog box that i mentioned above. And i have to select the .tct file that i mentioned above.

But i get an error like this.

couldn’t open “./input-background.gif”: no such file or directory

Is there a solution where i can run my program incluidng teh .bat file or the .exe file.

Answer 1

actually I think may be there has some confuse problem in your scenario, so I will post a typical calling bat program here:

    static void Main(string[] args) 
    { 
    ProcessStartInfo pst = new ProcessStartInfo("Your batch file","the arguments"); 
    Process p = new Process(); 
    p.StartInfo = pst; Console.WriteLine(p.StandardOutput); //Some info like error message in your batch file or comments. 
p.Start(); 
    }

and you could replace Your batch file with an executable file or a batch file.
About your second problem, may be there has some resource in your batch file get a directory with a space in it, your could add quota around it.
I suggest you could test your batch file in windows command line first, and if it works as expected, then turn to the Process code.
Hope help.