Shelling... the 'system' command and 'Ping'

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I have the problem that shelling in vb.net is not working for me at this
point.

I am trying to make a graphical application to netsend (multiple) PCs on
the network(notwork) and to ping to check if they are online or not.

code like:
shell("ping bob >> ""C:\hello.txt""",windowstate.hidden[or whatever],
false)

does not work... nor does:
shell("ping bob >> C:\hello.txt",windowstate.hidden[or whatever], false)

wheras that is a perfectly acceptable string to feed the command
prompt...

I have a C++ class tht runs the C 'system' command on that string, which
works perfectly, but then i can't supress the console window, which
raises its ugliness in an unacceptable manner.

any help?

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[Chris Dunaway]

code like:
shell("ping bob >> ""C:\hello.txt""",windowstate.hidden[or whatever],
false)

does not work... nor does:
shell("ping bob >> C:\hello.txt",windowstate.hidden[or whatever], false)

wheras that is a perfectly acceptable string to feed the command
prompt...

Try using the Process.Start method to start ping and then you redirect the
output stream to a file.

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[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

I have the problem that shelling in vb.net is not working for me at this
point.

I am trying to make a graphical application to netsend (multiple) PCs on
the network(notwork) and to ping to check if they are online or not.

code like:
shell("ping bob >> ""C:\hello.txt""",windowstate.hidden[or whatever],
false)

does not work... nor does:
shell("ping bob >> C:\hello.txt",windowstate.hidden[or whatever], false)

wheras that is a perfectly acceptable string to feed the command
prompt...

<URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/dotnet/samples/miscsamples/downloads/RedirectConsole.zip>

 

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Thank you v helpful.

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