Use Process.Start to execute Ipconfig

[Manoj Nair]

Hi,
In our application we need to use the Process command to execute and
retrieve the string that is returned when we execute IpConfig on the command
prompt.( yes have to use IPConfig)
the following code doesn't seem to work.
Process p = new Process();
p.StartInfo.UseShellExecute = false;
p.StartInfo.RedirectStandardOutput = true;
p.StartInfo.FileName = "cmd.exe";
p.StartInfo.Arguments ="/c: /ipconfig";
p.Start();
p.WaitForExit();
string output = p.StandardOutput.ReadToEnd();
return output;

Need help on this

Thanks

Manoj

[William Bartholomew]

You don't need to execute cmd.exe, you can run ipconfig.exe directly.

Process p = new Process();
p.StartInfo.UseShellExecute = false;
p.StartInfo.RedirectStandardOutput = true;
p.StartInfo.FileName = "ipconfig.exe";
p.Start();
p.WaitForExit();
string output = p.StandardOutput.ReadToEnd();
return output;
If you can avoid calling ipconfig directly I would as the format of its
output and its parameters will vary from OS version to OS version. You
might be able to access the information you need via either WMI or
PInvoke. Check out http://www.pinvoke.net/ or search
http://www.CodeProject.com/ as there have been a lot of networking
related articles posted there.

Regards,

William D. Bartholomew
http://blog.bartholomew.id.au

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[Manoj Nair]

Thanks William
Just passed the entire path along with the ipconfig and it worked
Thanks for the help
Manoj

"William Bartholomew" <william(at)bartholomew[dot]id{dot}au> wrote in
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You don't need to execute cmd.exe, you can run ipconfig.exe directly.

Process p = new Process();
p.StartInfo.UseShellExecute = false;
p.StartInfo.RedirectStandardOutput = true;
p.StartInfo.FileName = "ipconfig.exe";
p.Start();
p.WaitForExit();
string output = p.StandardOutput.ReadToEnd();
return output;
If you can avoid calling ipconfig directly I would as the format of its
output and its parameters will vary from OS version to OS version. You
might be able to access the information you need via either WMI or
PInvoke. Check out http://www.pinvoke.net/ or search
http://www.CodeProject.com/ as there have been a lot of networking
related articles posted there.

Regards,

William D. Bartholomew
http://blog.bartholomew.id.au

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