Question

So anyways, I’ve been working on a batch IDE, and I was wondering if there was a good way to effectively embed the file into the form.

It would function sort of like a debug mode, where at any time, the user can click a button, and the batch file would load into the actual form.

Like the black cmd window would be embedded into the form…
Is there any way to do that?

Answer 1

ProcessStartInfo psi = new ProcessStartInfo();
psi.RedirectStandardOutput = true;
psi.UseShellExecute = false;
psi.FileName = "C:\\echo.cmd";
var p = Process.Start(psi);
Console.WriteLine(p.StandardOutput.ReadToEnd());

And in C:\echo.cmd I have just basic echo hello!. When this code is executed – you’ll see hello! received from batch’s output stream.

Note that if executed command will wait for some input – ReadToEnd() can’t return. In this case you should use Process.OutputDataReceived event.