run command prompt

[Bassem]

Hi

I'm trying to run a simple command prompt "help". But the command prompt opens and no command runs!

string strCmdText;
strCmdText = "help";
System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("CMD.exe", strCmdText);

I appreciate your help.

[r035198x]

Try using ProcessStartInf o and redirecting the output of the process to the console so you can see what's going on.

[Bassem]

Thank you r035198x. But I wanted to run a regular console window that users can interact with from outside my application.

I found that sending a command as an argument to "cmd.exe" does not mean that it should execute it. We have to lead the command with one of these instructions:

/c means execute then terminate.
/k means execute and wait for a user input.