Shell Program

[Guest]

How to write a shell program in visual basics to run a batch file.please help.
thanks in advance.

 

[Cor Ligthert]

Kurien,

Have a look at this page, it leads you too all other pages you need.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...stemdiagnosticsprocessstartinfoclasstopic.asp

I hope this helps

Cor

 

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

How to write a shell program in visual basics to run a batch file.please
help.

Opening files, applications, Web documents, and the mail client
<URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/dotnet/faqs/?id=openfileappwebpage&lang=en>

 

[Guest]

hey all,

what if i wanted to get a response back so i'll know when the .bat file has
completed normally? is there a way to handle that?

thanks,
rodchar

 

[jack]

You could try this.

http://www.jrbtech.com/index.php/codecenter/2005/01/10/vb_net_running_a_cgi_exe

 

[Cor Ligthert]

Rodchar,

You mean this one,

\\\
Dim p As New Process
dim pi as new processstartinfo
pi.UseShellExecute = False
pi.RedirectStandardOutput = True
pi.Arguments = myargumentstring
pi.WorkingDirectory = myworkdirectorystring
pi..FileName =C:\myprogram
pi.startinfo = pi
p.Start()
Dim sr As IO.StreamReader = p.StandardOutput
Dim sb As New System.Text.StringBuilder("")
Dim input As Integer = sr.Read
Do Until input = -1
sb.Append(ChrW(input))
input = sr.Read
Loop
///

Cor

 

[Guest]

i'll give a try and let you know...
thanks.

 

[Guest]

what are the following lines suppose to do:

Dim sr As IO.StreamReader = p.StandardOutput
Dim sb As New System.Text.StringBuilder("")
Dim input As Integer = sr.Read
Do Until input = -1
sb.Append(ChrW(input))
input = sr.Read
Loop

will this let the application know when the p.start() is completed. how
would i check for it?

 

[Cor Ligthert]

Rodchar,

It gives you back the message in sr.ToString

Cor

 

[Guest]

now, is this something i can use to tell me when the .bat file has completed.

will this cause the vb.net program to wait for the .bat file to finish
before proceeding?

what value or variable do i check to make sure the .bat program is finished
before proceeding?

thanks,
rodchar

 

[Cor Ligthert]

Rodchar,

This is based on a dependable situation so it will wait, what it gets it the
commandline message from the procedure.

I thought that was what you needed when not there is as well the

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...emdiagnosticsprocessclasswaitforexittopic.asp

I hope this helps?

Cor

 

[Guest]

thanks for all the help everyone. this has definitely helped.