Async process start and wait for it to finish

Question

I am new to the thread model in .net. What would you use to:

1. start a process that handles a file (process.StartInfo.FileName = fileName;)
2. wait for th

Answer 1

Try the following code.

public void KickOffProcess(string filePath) {
  var proc = Process.Start(filePath);
  ThreadPool.QueueUserWorkItem(new WaitCallBack(WaitForProc), proc);
}

private void WaitForProc(object obj) {
  var proc = (Process)obj;
  proc.WaitForExit();
  // Do the file deletion here
}