Controlling a command line program from a GUI

[ngolding]

I could not reply to the original thread I found on this subject:
http://www.thescripts.com/forum/thread233220.html

But I found a great article that describes how to accomplish this goal.

http://www.csharphelp. com/archives/archive210.html


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private void start()
{
Process p = new Process();
StreamWriter sw;
StreamReader sr;
StreamReader err;

ProcessStartInf o psI = new ProcessStartInf o("cmd");
psI.UseShellExe cute = false;
psI.RedirectSta ndardInput = true;
psI.RedirectSta ndardOutput = true;
psI.RedirectSta ndardError = true;
psI.CreateNoWin dow = true;
p.StartInfo = psI;

p.Start();
sw = p.StandardInput ;
sr = p.StandardOutpu t;
err = p.StandardError ;

sw.AutoFlush = true;
if (tbComm.Text != "")
sw.WriteLine(tb Comm.Text);
else
//execute default command
sw.WriteLine("d ir \");

sw.Close();

textBox1.Text = sr.ReadToEnd();
textBox1.Text += err.ReadToEnd() ;
}