screen scraping dos application

[newdev]

Hi All,

Can somebody maybe please help me?

- how do i screen scrape data from a dos application / window to .net application by using c#?
- how do i screen scrape data from a dos application / window to sql database?
- how do i screen scrape data from a dos application / window to sql database and insert other data back to the dos application / window?

Thanks

[NitinSawant]

Dear,
Hear's function for doing the task,

executes the command using cmd and returns the output as text

public String ExecuteCommandSync(object command)
        {
            try
            {
                // create the ProcessStartInfo using "cmd" as the program to be run, and "/c " as the parameters.
                // Incidentally, /c tells cmd that we want it to execute the command that follows, and then exit.
                System.Diagnostics.ProcessStartInfo procStartInfo = new System.Diagnostics.ProcessStartInfo("cmd", "/c " + command);
                // The following commands are needed to redirect the standard output. 
                //This means that it will be redirected to the Process.StandardOutput StreamReader.
                procStartInfo.RedirectStandardOutput = true;
                procStartInfo.UseShellExecute = false;
                // Do not create the black window.
                procStartInfo.CreateNoWindow = true;
                // Now we create a process, assign its ProcessStartInfo and start it
                System.Diagnostics.Process proc = new System.Diagnostics.Process();
                proc.StartInfo = procStartInfo;
                proc.Start();
 
                // Get the output into a string
                string result = proc.StandardOutput.ReadToEnd();
 
                // Display the command output.
                return result;
            }
            catch(Exception ex)
            {
                // Log the exception
                //return "";
                throw ex;
            }
        }