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Newbie Q: How can I run dos commands in C# e.g. ipconfig

Loranga

Aloha,

I was using MS Visual studio net for the first time yesterday and made a simple calculator program in c#.
Now to my question: How can I run a dos command from C#? For example if I would to make a button that runs the command "ipconfig /all" or something like that.

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csharphelp21y ago
try this
using System.Diagnostics;

Process p=new Process();
p.StartInfo.FileName="cmd.exe";
p.StartInfo.CreateNoWindow=true;
p.StartInfo.UseShellExecute=false;
p.StartInfo.Arguments="\k dir";//where dir can be any dos command
p.Start();
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Ricardo Schroeder21y ago
using System.Diagnostics; string cmd = "net.exe"; string arg = "send user message"; Process.Start(cmd, arg); I hope it help you.
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