dos commands from windows forms

[Harley]

Hey,
I want to have a small command prompt type shell in one of my forms
that will allow a user to issue dos(if i can still call it dos)
commands from within my windows for and show the output from that
command in a textbox or label.

For the life of me I can see any way to do it.
The closest thing I have found to what i need is
system.diagnostics.process.start() but its limmitted to fireing off an
exicuteable, url or other resource in its natural exicution env. (eg.
ipconfig.exe will launch a new command prompt) and the output is shown
in the new command prompt window or web browser etc.

I have concidered useing a local service and isueing commands through
that but again how do i get the service to issue commands and retrive
the output?

I did manage to get it to work with ssh but most users aren't going to
want to run ssh or telnet just for this feature.

I have exhausted msdn and .net 247 ( a great reference resource
http://www.dotnet247.com/247reference/namespaces.aspx ) but can't find
any classes that offer this functionality and it is way over my head
to build it myself from the ground up.

Any help would be greatly apriciated.

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

* ju*****@yahoo.com (Harley) scripsit:

I want to have a small command prompt type shell in one of my forms
that will allow a user to issue dos(if i can still call it dos)
commands from within my windows for and show the output from that
command in a textbox or label.

<http://www.mvps.org/dotnet/dotnet/samples/miscsamples/downloads/RedirectConsole.zip>

--
Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]
<http://www.mvps.org/dotnet>

[Harley]

Thanks,
This is exactly what I needed and integrated very easily into my owne
application. very clean and well written also. :)


hi***************@gmx.at (Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]) wrote in message news:<#9**************@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl>...

* ju*****@yahoo.com (Harley) scripsit:

I want to have a small command prompt type shell in one of my forms
that will allow a user to issue dos(if i can still call it dos)
commands from within my windows for and show the output from that
command in a textbox or label.

<http://www.mvps.org/dotnet/dotnet/samples/miscsamples/downloads/RedirectConsole.zip>