C# Windows Form .Net and DOS Console

Question

I have a windows form that executes a batch file. I want to transfer everything that happends in my console to a panel in my form. How can I do this? How can my DOS console

Answer 1

I've been fooling around with the System.Diagnostics.Process class for calling console based applications and formating and returning the output. I think it will work with Batch files, as well. I'll take a moment here to test that. Here is some sample code:

   System.Diagnostics.ProcessStartInfo start = new System.Diagnostics.ProcessStartInfo();
    start.UseShellExecute = false;
    start.RedirectStandardInput = true;
    start.WindowStyle = System.Diagnostics.ProcessWindowStyle.Hidden;

    start.RedirectStandardOutput = true;
    start.FileName = "at";
System.Diagnostics.Process myP = System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(start);
String strOutput = myP.StandardOutput.ReadToEnd();
if (strOutput.Contains("There are no entries in the list."))
{
    litMsg.Text = "There are no jobs";
}
else
{
    strOutput = strOutput.Replace("\r", "");
    foreach (String line in strOutput.Split("\n".ToCharArray()))
    {
        //(0,7)  (7,5)(12, 24)                (36, 14)      (50, )
        //Status ID   Day                     Time          Command Line
        //-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
        //        1   Tomorrow                3:00 AM       dir *
        if (line.Length > 50)
        {
            String Status = line.Substring(0, 7);
            String ID = line.Substring(7, 5);
            String Day = line.Substring(12, 24);
            String Time = line.Substring(35, 14);
            String Command = line.Substring(49);
        }
    }
}