How to execute a bat file from a C windows form app

Question

What I need to do is have a C  2005 GUI app call a  bat and several VBScript files at user s request  This is just a stop-gap solution until the end of the holidays and I can write it all in C   I can get the VBScript files to execute with no problem but I am unable to execute the  bat file  When I  click  in the C  app to execute the  bat file a DOS window opens up and closes very fast and the test  bat file does not execute -  Windows does not recognize bat as an internal or external command  is the error returned in the DOS box  If I simply doubl-click the  bat file or manually run it from the command prompt it does execute  I also need the  bat file to execute silently unless a user interaction is required - this script copies 11k  files to folders on a networked machine and occasionally Windows  forgets  if the destination is a file or directory and asks for the user to tell it what it is  this is a whole other issue not for discussion here   needless to say I am annoyed by it    So far in my C  source I have this    Process scriptProc   new Process              if  File Exists  c   scripts  batchfile1 bat                           scriptProc StartInfo FileName     cscript               scriptProc StartInfo Arguments     cmd exe     C C   scripts  batchfile1 bat       Wacky psuedo code                scriptProc Start                scriptProc WaitForExit 1500000               scriptProc Close                        if   File Exists  c   scripts  batchfile1 bat                          I am aware that this code does not work - but it is essentially what I want it to do  What I am looking at is something like this for  bat files  I assume I have to tell the system to use cmd to run the  bat  I am at a loss as to how to do this   I have checked out this site which is for C  2003  Not much help for me as I am very green with C     EDIT  Using Kevin s post I attempted it again  Same solution script from that post but modified for me since I do not need to redirect    System Diagnostics Process proc   new System Diagnostics Process                proc StartInfo FileName    C   scripts  batchfile1 bat               proc StartInfo RedirectStandardError   false              proc StartInfo RedirectStandardOutput   false              proc StartInfo UseShellExecute   false              proc Start                proc WaitForExit

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Here is what you are looking for   Service hangs up at WaitForExit after calling batch file  It s about a question as to why a service can t execute a file  but it shows all the code necessary to do so

User · Answer

For the problem you re having about the batch file asking the user if the destination is a folder or file  if you know the answer in advance  you can do as such   If destination is a file   echo f    batch file path   If folder  echo d    batch file path   It will essentially just pipe the letter after  echo  to the input of the batch file

User · Answer

For the problem you re having about the batch file asking the user if the destination is a folder or file  if you know the answer in advance  you can do as such   If destination is a file   echo f    batch file path   If folder  echo d    batch file path   It will essentially just pipe the letter after  echo  to the input of the batch file

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