run a dos commands from C# code

How to run a dos command from your C# code without showing a console window? Here is some code I copy from http://www.neeao.com/blog/article-3341.html
I have used it in my project, it works.

/// <summary>
        
/// A method used to run a dos command hiddenly.
        
/// </summary>
        
/// <param name="dosCommand"></param>
        
/// <param name="outtime"></param>
        
/// <returns></returns>

        public static string Execute(string dosCommand, int outtime)
        
{
            
string output = "";
            
if (dosCommand != null && dosCommand != "")
            
{
                Process process 
= new Process();//create process object
                ProcessStartInfo startinfo = new ProcessStartInfo();
                startinfo.FileName 
= "cmd.exe";//
                
//bellow is the setting to hidden the console window
                startinfo.Arguments = "/c" + dosCommand;
                startinfo.UseShellExecute 
= false;
                startinfo.RedirectStandardInput 
= false;
                startinfo.RedirectStandardOutput 
= true;
                startinfo.CreateNoWindow 
= true;
                process.StartInfo 
= startinfo;

                
try
                
{
                    
if (process.Start())
                    
{
                        
if (outtime == 0)
                        
{ process.WaitForExit(); }
                        
else
                        
{ process.WaitForExit(outtime); }
                        output 
= process.StandardOutput.ReadToEnd();
                    }

                }

                
catch (SqlException e)
                
{
                    
throw e;
                }

                
catch (Exception e)
                
{
                    
throw e;
                }

                
finally
                
{
                    
if (process != null)
                    
{ process.Close(); }
                }

            }

            
return output;
        }
 
posted @ 2008-04-20 05:18  EagleFish(邢瑜琨)  阅读(487)  评论(0编辑  收藏  举报