ProcessStartInfo hanging on “WaitForExit”? Why?

Question

I have the following code:

info = new System.Diagnostics.ProcessStartInfo(\"TheProgram.exe\", String.Join(\" \", args));
info.CreateNoWindow = true;
info.Win         


        

Answer 1

After reading all the posts here, i settled on the consolidated solution of Marko Avlijaš. However, it did not solve all of my issues.

In our environment we have a Windows Service which is scheduled to run hundreds of different .bat .cmd .exe,... etc. files which have accumulated over the years and were written by many different people and in different styles. We have no control over the writing of the programs & scripts, we are just responsible for scheduling, running, and reporting on success/failure.

So i tried pretty much all of the suggestions here with different levels of success. Marko's answer was almost perfect, but when run as a service, it didnt always capture stdout. I never got to the bottom of why not.

The only solution we found that works in ALL our cases is this : http://csharptest.net/319/using-the-processrunner-class/index.html