Executing Command line .exe with parameters in C#

Question

I\'m trying to execute a command line program with parameters from C#. I would have imagined that standing this up and making this happen would be trivial in C# but its prov

Answer 1

I realized I may have left out some detail that some people may need to solve this in the future.

Here are the values of the method parameters at run time. I had some confusion as to what the object ProcessStartInfo and Process needed to be stood up correctly I think others may as well.

exeDir = "C:\folder1\folder2\bin\keytool.exe"

args = "-delete -noprompt -alias server.us.goodstuff.world -storepass changeit -keystore keystore.jks"

public bool ExecuteCommand(string exeDir, string args)
{
  try
  {
    ProcessStartInfo procStartInfo = new ProcessStartInfo();

    procStartInfo.FileName = exeDir;
    procStartInfo.Arguments = args;
    procStartInfo.RedirectStandardOutput = true;
    procStartInfo.UseShellExecute = false;
    procStartInfo.CreateNoWindow = true;

    using (Process process = new Process())
    {
      process.StartInfo = procStartInfo;
      process.Start();

      process.WaitForExit();

      string result = process.StandardOutput.ReadToEnd();
      Console.WriteLine(result);
    }
    return true;
  }
  catch (Exception ex)
  {
    Console.WriteLine("*** Error occured executing the following commands.");
    Console.WriteLine(exeDir);
    Console.WriteLine(args);
    Console.WriteLine(ex.Message);
    return false;
  }

Between Dmitry's assistance and the following resource,

http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/25983/How-to-Execute-a-Command-in-C

I was able to cobble this together. Thank you!