Question

I’m trying to run a batch file with a cmd file I have in my resources. I’m not trying to extract them anywhere. I simply want to edit the bat command in the form and run it with the cmd file I have. Is this possible?

Answer 1

There’s no way to run a .cmd or .bat file without saving it to disk first. It has to be there for cmd.exe to read and interpret. You’ll have to save it to disk first and run it from there.

Once you save it, you can run it using System.Diagnostics.Process. From the link’s VB.Net example:

Imports System
Imports System.Diagnostics
Imports System.ComponentModel

Namespace MyProcessSample
Class MyProcess

  Public Shared Sub Main()
    Dim myProcess As New Process()

      Try                ' Get the path that stores user documents.
        myProcess.StartInfo.UseShellExecute = False
        ' You can start any process, HelloWorld is a do-nothing example.
        myProcess.StartInfo.FileName = "C:\\HelloWorld.exe"
        myProcess.StartInfo.CreateNoWindow = True
        myProcess.Start()
        ' This code assumes the process you are starting will terminate itself. 
        ' Given that is is started without a window so you cannot terminate it 
        ' on the desktop, it must terminate itself or you can do it 
        ' programmatically from this application using the Kill method.
      Catch e As Exception
        Console.WriteLine((e.Message))
      End Try
    End Sub 'Main
  End Class
End Namespace