Difficulty with System.Diagnostics.Process and MySqlDump

[dwcscreenwriterextremesupreme]

I am trying to automate a mysqldump backup through C# and for some
reason the System.Diagnostics.Process is just not working as expected
for me.

What I want is for the following code to start a mysqldump, wait there
until it finishes, and then continue the loop.

foreach (DataRow dataRow in backupdt.Rows)
{
System.Diagnostics.Process proc = new
System.Diagnostics.Process();
proc.EnableRaisingEvents=false;
backupFilename = "c:\\data\\" +
dataRow["EntBkpSrvName"].ToString() + "." +
dataRow["EntBkpDbName"].ToString() + "." +
DateTime.Now.Year.ToString() + DateTime.Now.Month.ToString() +
DateTime.Now.Day.ToString();
dumpString = " -h" + dataRow["EntBkpSrvIP"].ToString() + " -
uusername -ppassword " + dataRow["EntBkpDbName"].ToString() + " > " +
backupFilename + ".sql";
proc.StartInfo.FileName = "mysqldump.exe";
proc.StartInfo.Arguments = dumpString;
proc.Start();
proc.WaitForExit();
}


Can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong?

Thanks.

 

[Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]]

Without knowing what is going wrong (you say it is not working as
expected for you, but what exactly is wrong) it's impossible to say.

Can you clarify?