Keep console window of a new Process open after it finishes

Question

I currently have a portion of code that creates a new Process and executes it from the shell.

Process p = new Process();
...
p.Start();
p.WaitForExit();
         


        

Answer 1

This will open the shell, start your executable and keep the shell window open when the process ends

Process p = new Process();
ProcessStartInfo psi = new ProcessStartInfo();
psi.FileName = "CMD.EXE";
psi.Arguments = "/K yourmainprocess.exe";
p.StartInfo = psi;
p.Start();
p.WaitForExit();

or simply

ProcessStartInfo psi = new ProcessStartInfo();
psi.FileName = "CMD.EXE";
psi.Arguments = "/K yourmainprocess.exe";
Process p = Process.Start(psi);
if(p != null && !p.HasExited)
    p.WaitForExit();