How to put shell output into a textbox

17 Dec 2006 2:04 AM

Franky

Got this from the Internet. Almost what I need except instead of putting the
data into a file I'd like it to go into a TextBox.

Can someone show me how to do that

thanks

pi.RedirectStandardOutput = True

pi.FileName = .FileName

pi.UseShellExecute = False

Dim sw As New System.IO.StreamWriter("C:\OutPut.txt")

p = Process.Start(pi)

sw.WriteLine(p.StandardOutput.ReadToEnd)

p.WaitForExit()

sw.Close()

17 Dec 2006 2:10 AM

Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]

" Franky" <frankieNOSPAM@a-znet.com> schrieb:
> Got this from the Internet. Almost what I need except instead of putting
> the data into a file I'd like it to go into a TextBox.
>[...]
> pi.RedirectStandardOutput = True
>
> pi.FileName = .FileName
>
> pi.UseShellExecute = False

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> p = Process.Start(pi)

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\\\
Me.TextBox1.Text = p.StandardOutput.ReadToEnd()
///

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> p.WaitForExit()
>
> sw.Close()

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17 Dec 2006 4:56 PM

Franky

so easy when you know how

thanks

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"Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]" <hirf-spam-me-here@gmx.at> wrote in message
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>" Franky" <frankieNOSPAM@a-znet.com> schrieb:
>> Got this from the Internet. Almost what I need except instead of putting
>> the data into a file I'd like it to go into a TextBox.
>>[...]
>> pi.RedirectStandardOutput = True
>>
>> pi.FileName = .FileName
>>
>> pi.UseShellExecute = False
>
> Line of code removed here.
>
>> p = Process.Start(pi)
>
> Line of code altered here:
>
> \\\
> Me.TextBox1.Text = p.StandardOutput.ReadToEnd()
> ///
>
>> p.WaitForExit()
>>
>> sw.Close()
>
> --
> M S Herfried K. Wagner
> M V P <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>
> V B <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/dotnet/faqs/>

17 Dec 2006 5:11 PM

Franky

I noticed you used "Me" below. I like that and wish there is a switch that
tells the compiler that it is never to be assumed - that is, catch me when I
don't use it.

Is there such an option?

Thanks

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"Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]" <hirf-spam-me-here@gmx.at> wrote in message
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>" Franky" <frankieNOSPAM@a-znet.com> schrieb:
>> Got this from the Internet. Almost what I need except instead of putting
>> the data into a file I'd like it to go into a TextBox.
>>[...]
>> pi.RedirectStandardOutput = True
>>
>> pi.FileName = .FileName
>>
>> pi.UseShellExecute = False
>
> Line of code removed here.
>
>> p = Process.Start(pi)
>
> Line of code altered here:
>
> \\\
> Me.TextBox1.Text = p.StandardOutput.ReadToEnd()
> ///
>
>> p.WaitForExit()
>>
>> sw.Close()
>
> --
> M S Herfried K. Wagner
> M V P <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>
> V B <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/dotnet/faqs/>

17 Dec 2006 5:18 PM

Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]

" Franky" <frankieNOSPAM@a-znet.com> schrieb:
>I noticed you used "Me" below. I like that and wish there is a switch that
>tells the compiler that it is never to be assumed - that is, catch me when
>I don't use it.
>
> Is there such an option?

No. I use 'Me.' only to get an appropriate IntelliSense selection list when
writing code.

--
M S Herfried K. Wagner
M V P <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>
V B <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/dotnet/faqs/>

17 Dec 2006 6:44 PM

Franky

Thanks

One more question.

The following does not work

Can you tell me what does

pi.FileName = "%SystemRoot%\shell32\cmd.exe"

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"Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]" <hirf-spam-me-here@gmx.at> wrote in message
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>" Franky" <frankieNOSPAM@a-znet.com> schrieb:
>>I noticed you used "Me" below. I like that and wish there is a switch that
>>tells the compiler that it is never to be assumed - that is, catch me when
>>I don't use it.
>>
>> Is there such an option?
>
> No. I use 'Me.' only to get an appropriate IntelliSense selection list
> when writing code.
>
> --
> M S Herfried K. Wagner
> M V P <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>
> V B <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/dotnet/faqs/>

17 Dec 2006 7:55 PM

Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]

" Franky" <frankieNOSPAM@a-znet.com> schrieb:
> The following does not work
>
> Can you tell me what does
>
> pi.FileName = "%SystemRoot%\shell32\cmd.exe"

On my machine no such path exists. In addition you may want to check the
environment variable-related methods of the 'System.Environment' class which
can be used to expand environment variables inside strings representing a
path. However, 'pi.FileName = "cmd.exe"' should be sufficient.

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M S Herfried K. Wagner
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