In a recent forum posting, I found myself writing some code that would open the Visual Studio 2005 Command Prompt (C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\\VC\\vcvarsall.bat). Once opened, the command prompt had to accept command-lines, just as if they were typed in by the user…except in this case it had to be under program control! <\/p>\n
I’m sure that there are many ways of doing this, but here’s what I ended up with:<\/p>\n
[code lang=”C#”]
\n[C#]
\nusing System.Diagnostics;
\nusing System.IO;<\/p>\n
namespace Cmd
\n{
\n public partial class Form1 : Form
\n {
\n public Form1()
\n {
\n InitializeComponent();
\n }<\/p>\n
private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
\n {
\n string sProcess = @”C:\\windows\\system32\\cmd.exe”;
\n string sParam = @”C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\\VC\\vcvarsall.bat”;
\n string cmd = String.Format(” \/k {0}{1}{2} x86″, “\\””, sParam, “\\””);<\/p>\n
Process p = new Process();
\n p.StartInfo.RedirectStandardInput = true;
\n p.StartInfo.RedirectStandardOutput = true;
\n p.StartInfo.UseShellExecute = false;<\/p>\n
p.StartInfo.FileName = sProcess;
\n p.StartInfo.Arguments = cmd;
\n p.Start();<\/p>\n
System.IO.StreamReader sOut = p.StandardOutput;
\n StreamWriter myStreamWriter = p.StandardInput;<\/p>\n
myStreamWriter.WriteLine(“dir”); \/\/ Your command line, MSBuild, etc.
\n myStreamWriter.WriteLine(“EXIT”);<\/p>\n
MessageBox.Show(sOut.ReadToEnd());<\/p>\n
p.Close();
\n }
\n }
\n}
\n[\/code]<\/p>\n
I’ve left the call to MessageBox.Show() to make you aware of the output.<\/p>\n
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