running .exe file from my program

[RedRose2009]

Hello,

I am working on a C#.NET project that needs to call .exe file from a project that I previously worked on. So, basically project A, needs to call project B. I am not sure how to do it. I tried calling with Process.Start ("something.exe "), but nothing happens so I am thinking maybe I have to be more specific to where exactly something.exe is located. Does something.exe has to be inside the same folder as project A? When I look for something.exe of my project B, I have two folders obj & bin, inside which of these is the .exe file that program A needs to run? I hope this is not too confusing....

This is really urgent and any help would be highly appreciated!

Thanks!

P.S. When project A tries to run exe file of my project B using Process.Start I get the error saying the project encountered a problem and needs to close down. I think the issue is with the location of my exe file.

[Saser]

Try this:

using System.Diagnostics;

...

Process someProcess = new Process();
someProcess.StartInfo.FileName = @"<complete path to executable file here>";
someProcess.StartInfo.Arguments = ""; // If you want to pass some arguments to the file being executed
someProcess.Start();

Be sure to include the @ in FileName, because otherwise you'd need to use double backslashes in the path. Not really necessary, but it's for convenience.

[fastestindian]

System.Diagnostics.ProcessStartInfo info = new ProcessStartInfo(filePath,fileName );
      Process pdfCreationProcess = new Process();
      pdfCreationProcess.StartInfo = info;
      pdfCreationProcess.Start();
      pdfCreationProcess.WaitForExit();
      pdfCreationProcess.Exited += new EventHandler(fileCreationProcess_Exited);
      pdfCreationProcess.EnableRaisingEvents = true;
      pdfCreationProcess.Close();

Use fileCreationPro cess_Exited event to run the code which needed to be run after exiting the targeted exe