Redirect the output (stdout, stderr) of a child process to the Output window in Visual Studio

Question

At the moment I am starting a batch file from my C# program with:

System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(@\"DoSomeStuff.bat\");

What I would like

Answer 1

A variation of this works for me --posting this now because I wish I'd found it earlier. Note that this is just a fragment extracted from the real code so there may be trivial errors.

The technique is based on some MSDN code. What I haven't been able to figure out is how to get the output window to update "on the fly". It doesn't update until after this task returns.

// Set this to your output window Pane
private EnvDTE.OutputWindowPane _OutputPane = null;

// Methods to receive standard output and standard error

private static void StandardOutputReceiver(object sendingProcess, DataReceivedEventArgs outLine)
{
   // Receives the child process' standard output
   if (! string.IsNullOrEmpty(outLine.Data)) {
       if (_OutputPane != null)
           _OutputPane.Write(outLine.Data + Environment.NewLine);
   }
}

private static void StandardErrorReceiver(object sendingProcess, DataReceivedEventArgs errLine)
{
   // Receives the child process' standard error
   if (! string.IsNullOrEmpty(errLine.Data)) {
       if (_OutputPane != null)
           _OutputPane.Write("Error> " + errLine.Data + Environment.NewLine);
   }
}

// main code fragment
{
    // Start the new process
    ProcessStartInfo startInfo = new ProcessStartInfo(PROGRAM.EXE);
    startInfo.Arguments = COMMANDLINE;
    startInfo.WorkingDirectory = srcDir;
    startInfo.UseShellExecute = false;
    startInfo.RedirectStandardOutput = true;
    startInfo.RedirectStandardError = true;
    startInfo.CreateNoWindow = true;
    Process p = Process.Start(startInfo);
    p.OutputDataReceived += new DataReceivedEventHandler(StandardOutputReceiver);
    p.BeginOutputReadLine();
    p.ErrorDataReceived += new DataReceivedEventHandler(StandardErrorReceiver);
    p.BeginErrorReadLine();
    bool completed = p.WaitForExit(20000);
    if (!completed)
    {
        // do something here if it didn't finish in 20 seconds
    }
    p.Close();
}