close cmd window when process.startin fo closes

[David]

I'm opening a cmd window to run an ftp process. It's easy enough to close the
process (.close()), but the cmd window won't close unless I go out to the
window and type 'quit'.

How can I send a request to the cmd window to close?

Here's the code snippet that I'm using to make the call:

string strArg = "/c ftp.exe -v -n -s:" + strFile + " " + strHost + " > " +
strLogFile;
Process ftpProcess = new Process();
ftpProcess.Star tInfo.FileName= "cmd.exe";
ftpProcess.Star tInfo.Arguments = strArg;
ftpProcess.Star tInfo.CreateNoW indow=true;
ftpProcess.Star t();

Below this line in the code I've tried a number of things, but they all
target the process and not the cmd window itself. The ftp process completes
successfully in just over a second.

thanks for any help.

[Mark R. Dawson]

Hi David,
do you want to show the command window at all, would keeping it hidden all
the time be acceptable? If so then you can set the WindowStyle property of
the ProcessStartInf o to Hidden and the command window will execute but won't
be displayed.

System.Diagnost ics.ProcessStar tInfo pi;
pi.WindowStyle = System.Diagnost ics.ProcessWind owStyle.Hidden

Mark Dawson
http://www.markdawson.org
"David" wrote:

I'm opening a cmd window to run an ftp process. It's easy enough to close the
process (.close()), but the cmd window won't close unless I go out to the
window and type 'quit'.

How can I send a request to the cmd window to close?

Here's the code snippet that I'm using to make the call:

string strArg = "/c ftp.exe -v -n -s:" + strFile + " " + strHost + " > " +
strLogFile;
Process ftpProcess = new Process();
ftpProcess.Star tInfo.FileName= "cmd.exe";
ftpProcess.Star tInfo.Arguments = strArg;
ftpProcess.Star tInfo.CreateNoW indow=true;
ftpProcess.Star t();

Below this line in the code I've tried a number of things, but they all
target the process and not the cmd window itself. The ftp process completes
successfully in just over a second.

thanks for any help.

[David]

thanks for replying.
I did have that set, and once I get this working, I'll set it again.
Unfortunately, having it hidden isn't good enough, because it's still not
closed, and if I later try to access the file that the process creates, I get
an error stating that the file is being used by another application.
"Mark R. Dawson" wrote:

Hi David,
do you want to show the command window at all, would keeping it hidden all
the time be acceptable? If so then you can set the WindowStyle property of
the ProcessStartInf o to Hidden and the command window will execute but won't
be displayed.

System.Diagnost ics.ProcessStar tInfo pi;
pi.WindowStyle = System.Diagnost ics.ProcessWind owStyle.Hidden

Mark Dawson
http://www.markdawson.org
"David" wrote:

I'm opening a cmd window to run an ftp process. It's easy enough to close the
process (.close()), but the cmd window won't close unless I go out to the
window and type 'quit'.

How can I send a request to the cmd window to close?

Here's the code snippet that I'm using to make the call:

string strArg = "/c ftp.exe -v -n -s:" + strFile + " " + strHost + " > " +
strLogFile;
Process ftpProcess = new Process();
ftpProcess.Star tInfo.FileName= "cmd.exe";
ftpProcess.Star tInfo.Arguments = strArg;
ftpProcess.Star tInfo.CreateNoW indow=true;
ftpProcess.Star t();

Below this line in the code I've tried a number of things, but they all
target the process and not the cmd window itself. The ftp process completes
successfully in just over a second.

thanks for any help.