asp.net new process hangs

[Scott]

I am trying to write an asp.net web page that will spawn a
third party .exe file and return the results back to my
asp page. I am able to write a vb.net program that will
do this just fine. I redirect the output to a msgbox and
display it on the screen. However, when I put this as an
asp.net web page, the process just hangs. I am able to do
other processes from the same web page and get the
results, but when I try to launch this one it just hangs.
I was able to launch it as a seperate thread, then find
the thread and kill it, but then I don't get the program
results re-directed to std-out to display on a web page.
Can anyone help?

Here is a copy of the code that is being launched:

Sub startprocess()

Dim p As New Process

' Set up process to execute direct so that the
output can be captured
With p.StartInfo
.CreateNoWindow () = False
.UseShellExecut e = False
.FileName = "c:\plink.e xe"
.Arguments = " -ssh -l myun -pw mypw
un@server ./myvnc start"
.RedirectStanda rdOutput = True
.RedirectStanda rdError = True
End With

' Execute the process
p.EnableRaising Events() = True
If p.Start() Then
p.WaitForExit(5 )
mvarResults = p.StandardOutpu t.ReadToEnd()
End If
End Sub

[S. Justin Gengo]

Re: asp.net new process hangs

Scott,

You might be confused about state management with a web app. Web
applications are stateless. This means that the server creates a page
object, then sends the html output that the page object creates to the
client machine. The page object is then destroyed.

What this means is that if you execute a thread the thread is actually
executing on the web server and will it's actions such as a message box will
never show up in the browser. It's a different environment all together.

I hope this helps.

--
S. Justin Gengo, MCP
Web Developer

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"Scott" <spiscitelli@ya hoo.com> wrote in message
news:0dd301c36b e7$199d6a30$a60 1280a@phx.gbl.. .[color=blue]
> I am trying to write an asp.net web page that will spawn a
> third party .exe file and return the results back to my
> asp page. I am able to write a vb.net program that will
> do this just fine. I redirect the output to a msgbox and
> display it on the screen. However, when I put this as an
> asp.net web page, the process just hangs. I am able to do
> other processes from the same web page and get the
> results, but when I try to launch this one it just hangs.
> I was able to launch it as a seperate thread, then find
> the thread and kill it, but then I don't get the program
> results re-directed to std-out to display on a web page.
> Can anyone help?
>
> Here is a copy of the code that is being launched:
>
> Sub startprocess()
>
> Dim p As New Process
>
> ' Set up process to execute direct so that the
> output can be captured
> With p.StartInfo
> .CreateNoWindow () = False
> .UseShellExecut e = False
> .FileName = "c:\plink.e xe"
> .Arguments = " -ssh -l myun -pw mypw
> un@server ./myvnc start"
> .RedirectStanda rdOutput = True
> .RedirectStanda rdError = True
> End With
>
> ' Execute the process
> p.EnableRaising Events() = True
> If p.Start() Then
> p.WaitForExit(5 )
> mvarResults = p.StandardOutpu t.ReadToEnd()
> End If
> End Sub[/color]