Hiding cmd promt window

[Shyam Prakash]

Hello All,

I am puzzled over how to hide the cmd prompt window??

mycopy.exe copies a know set of files from one location to the other.
Here I am struggling to hide / supress the cmd prompt window which stays
until the process is exited.

<code snippet>

Process proc = new Process();
proc.StartInfo.FileName = @"mycopy.exe";
proc.StartInfo.CreateNoWindow = true;
proc.StartInfo.RedirectStandardOutput = true;
proc.StartInfo.UseShellExecute = false;
proc.StartInfo.CreateNoWindow = true;
proc.StartInfo.WindowStyle = ProcessWindowStyle.hidden;
proc.Start();
proc.WaitForExit();
proc.Close();

</code snippet>

Upon a few browses, I understood that, ProcessWindowStyle works well for
the application invoked (for ex, notepad through a cmd prompt) but not
on the cmd prompt itself.

Can anyone please help me in how to overcome this?.
Thanks in advance
../Shyam

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[Ken Cox [Microsoft MVP]]

Why don't you turn mycopy.exe in .NET code so you can call it directly in
your page and bypass the command prompt altogether?

"Shyam Prakash" <otherthings@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hello All,
>
> I am puzzled over how to hide the cmd prompt window??
>
> mycopy.exe copies a know set of files from one location to the other.
> Here I am struggling to hide / supress the cmd prompt window which stays
> until the process is exited.
>
> <code snippet>
>
> Process proc = new Process();
> proc.StartInfo.FileName = @"mycopy.exe";
> proc.StartInfo.CreateNoWindow = true;
> proc.StartInfo.RedirectStandardOutput = true;
> proc.StartInfo.UseShellExecute = false;
> proc.StartInfo.CreateNoWindow = true;
> proc.StartInfo.WindowStyle = ProcessWindowStyle.hidden;
> proc.Start();
> proc.WaitForExit();
> proc.Close();
>
> </code snippet>
>
> Upon a few browses, I understood that, ProcessWindowStyle works well for
> the application invoked (for ex, notepad through a cmd prompt) but not
> on the cmd prompt itself.
>
> Can anyone please help me in how to overcome this?.
> Thanks in advance
> /Shyam
>
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[Shyam Prakash]

Hello Ken,

That will do for my own code but in case mycopy.exe is a third party
tool then how to handle that??

Even in a simple case where I open a Notepad.exe, I get the cmd prompt
window.

Thanks
./Shyam



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