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Somebody
Somebody

Reputation: 2779

Hold the console window open using c#

I have the below code to build a project using MSBuild:

string process = sourcePath + @"\Application.sln /t:rebuild";
System.Diagnostics.Process csc = System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(@"C:\WINNT\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\MSBuild.exe",process);

This code worked before, I don't know why is not working any more.

If I do the same thing above by CMD it works fine, but not from VS.Net, the console window disappear fast so I can't see the error message.

If I debug the code I got this: BasePriority = 'csc.BasePriority' threw an exception of type 'System.InvalidOperationException'

Is there any way to hold that screen so I can know what is happening here?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2536

Answers (2)

Sasha
Sasha

Reputation: 8850

Just start the cmd process with MSBuild.exe as an argument instead of directly starting the exe file.

string process = @"C:\WINNT\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\MSBuild.exe " + sourcePath + @" \Application.sln /t:rebuild";
System.Diagnostics.Process csc = System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(@"%windir%\system32\cmd.exe", process);

Upvotes: 3

Amitd
Amitd

Reputation: 4849

You can try to redirect the output of the msbuild you start using RedirectStandardOutput 

Process compiler = new Process();
compiler.StartInfo.FileName = @"C:\WINNT\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\MSBuild.exe";
compiler.StartInfo.Arguments = sourcePath + @"\Application.sln /t:rebuild";
compiler.StartInfo.UseShellExecute = false;
compiler.StartInfo.RedirectStandardOutput = true;
compiler.Start();    

Console.WriteLine(compiler.StandardOutput.ReadToEnd());

compiler.WaitForExit();

Upvotes: 2

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