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How to input commands to an external application?
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Ulises Bolaños
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Hi everyone,
I want to make things clear, I'm new into programming and coding, and have very little experience with it, I would appreciate concrete and concise solutions.
I'm making a Visual Basic Windows application on Visual Studio Community 2019. I managed to run an external console application linking the following code to a button Process.Start("consoleapp.exe") as I put the program in the same directory to the VB app, but my goal is to input commands that are compatible with this "consoleapp.exe") and get the output as well, and with this, run some functions depending on the output. How can I do this? is Process.Start("consoleapp.exe" going to work for this? Or do I have to use another function to run and manage the program?
Thanks for reading my question and I pardon for my bad english xd.
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Richard Zhang-MSFT 6,936 Reputation points2020-08-20T02:20:17.257+00:00 Hello, I noticed that you marked the
uwptag. Does the Windows application you created is that the UWP (Universal Windows Platform) application? -
Ulises Bolaños 1 Reputation point
2020-08-20T04:42:03.57+00:00 Hey, Thx for reply,
I think I got the tag wrong, it is actually a Visual Vasic Windows Forms App (.NET Framework)
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Sara Liu-MSFT 346 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor2020-08-27T01:55:45.883+00:00 Dear customer, does your project is a Visual Basic Windows Forms app with .NET Framework type, right?
I managed to run an external console application linking the following code to a button Process.Start("consoleapp.exe") as I put the program in the same directory to the VB app.
Would you please share more detail description about your issue/requirement and the detail codes? Do you want to click the button to open the console app?
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