Please Help! Someone must have insight on this

[narpet]

Hello everyone. I apologize for this reposted question, but there must be someone out there who can help me with this....

I am using c# to build an application. One thing I would like to do is open an external app and send text to it.

For example, I would like to open cmd.exe (already done that part with no problem) and send text to it in order to perform some function.

So I open the command prompt, then I would like to send the text "dir" and then {enter} so that a list of the current directory is displayed.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
narpet

[decyclone]

Hi,

way 1 :

if you want to post commands to command prompt,
a good way would be creating a batch file (.bat),
executing that file,
deleting it after you are done with it.

way 2 :

I am not an expert in win32,
but i think you might get a handle to the command window,
send keyboard messages from your application
to simulate a key press on that command window.

Hope this helps.

Jay.

[narpet]

Here's the code I have attached to a button. As far as I can tell from my research, this should work. But it doesn't...

It runs the process but it doesn't enter any of the text into the window.

Any ideas?

            Process p;
            p = new Process();
            string plogin = txtLogin.Text;
            string ppwrd = txtPassword.Text;
            string psite = txtSite.Text;

            p.StartInfo.FileName = "cmd.exe";            
            p.StartInfo.UseShellExecute = false;
            p.StartInfo.RedirectStandardInput = true;
            p.Start();

            StreamWriter myStreamWriter = p.StandardInput;
            
            
            myStreamWriter.WriteLine("ftp");
            myStreamWriter.WriteLine(psite);
            myStreamWriter.WriteLine(plogin);
            myStreamWriter.WriteLine(ppwrd);
            myStreamWriter.WriteLine("prompt");
            myStreamWriter.WriteLine("lcd c:\\");
            myStreamWriter.WriteLine("mget *");

            myStreamWriter.Close();