c# – Run Command Prompt Commands – Stack Overflow

The following code will perform any console command you want and output the console text in your current window, everything after while(true) is just as example:

        ProcessStartInfo cmd = new ProcessStartInfo("cmd.exe");
        cmd.RedirectStandardInput = true;
        cmd.UseShellExecute = false;
        cmd.CreateNoWindow = false;
        cmd.WindowStyle = ProcessWindowStyle.Normal;
        Process console = Process.Start(cmd);

        while(true)
            console.StandardInput.WriteLine("pause");

If you don’t want any console output then set CreateNoWindow to true. Also this code works inside a console application using System.Diagnostics

Good luck!

This may be a bit of a read so im sorry in advance. And this is my tried and tested way of doing this, there may be a simpler way but this is from me throwing code at a wall and seeing what stuck

If it can be done with a batch file then the maybe over complicated work around is have c# write a .bat file and run it. If you want user input you could place the input into a variable and have c# write it into the file. it will take trial and error with this way because its like controlling a puppet with another puppet.

here is an example, In this case the function is for a push button in windows forum app that clears the print queue.

using System.IO;
using System;

   public static void ClearPrintQueue()
    {

        //this is the path the document or in our case batch file will be placed
        string docPath =
         Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.MyDocuments);
        //this is the path process.start usues
        string path1 = docPath   "\Test.bat";

        // these are the batch commands
        // remember its "", the comma separates the lines
        string[] lines =
        {
            "@echo off",
            "net stop spooler",
            "del %systemroot%\System32\spool\Printers\* /Q",
            "net start spooler",
            //this deletes the file
            "del "%~f0"" //do not put a comma on the last line
        };

        //this writes the string to the file
        using (StreamWriter outputFile = new StreamWriter(Path.Combine(docPath, "test.bat")))
        {
            //This writes the file line by line
            foreach (string line in lines)
                outputFile.WriteLine(line);
        }
        System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(path1);

    }

IF you want user input then you could try something like this.

This is for setting the computer IP as static but asking the user what the IP, gateway, and dns server is.

you will need this for it to work

public static void SetIPStatic()
    {
//These open pop up boxes which ask for user input
        string STATIC = Microsoft.VisualBasic.Interaction.InputBox("Whats the static IP?", "", "", 100, 100);
        string SUBNET = Microsoft.VisualBasic.Interaction.InputBox("Whats the Subnet?(Press enter for default)", "255.255.255.0", "", 100, 100);
        string DEFAULTGATEWAY = Microsoft.VisualBasic.Interaction.InputBox("Whats the Default gateway?", "", "", 100, 100);
        string DNS = Microsoft.VisualBasic.Interaction.InputBox("Whats the DNS server IP?(Input required, 8.8.4.4 has already been set as secondary)", "", "", 100, 100);



        //this is the path the document or in our case batch file will be placed
        string docPath =
         Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.MyDocuments);
        //this is the path process.start usues
        string path1 = docPath   "\Test.bat";

        // these are the batch commands
        // remember its "", the comma separates the lines
        string[] lines =
        {
            "SETLOCAL EnableDelayedExpansion",
            "SET adapterName=",
            "FOR /F "tokens=* delims=:" %%a IN ('IPCONFIG ^| FIND /I "ETHERNET ADAPTER"') DO (",
            "SET adapterName=%%a",
            "REM Removes "Ethernet adapter" from the front of the adapter name",
            "SET adapterName=!adapterName:~17!",
            "REM Removes the colon from the end of the adapter name",
            "SET adapterName=!adapterName:~0,-1!",
//the variables that were set before are used here
            "netsh interface ipv4 set address name="!adapterName!" static "   STATIC   " "   STATIC   " "   DEFAULTGATEWAY,
            "netsh interface ipv4 set dns name="!adapterName!" static "   DNS   " primary",
            "netsh interface ipv4 add dns name="!adapterName!" 8.8.4.4 index=2",
            ")",
            "ipconfig /flushdns",
            "ipconfig /registerdns",
            ":EOF",
            "DEL "%~f0"",
            ""
        };

        //this writes the string to the file
        using (StreamWriter outputFile = new StreamWriter(Path.Combine(docPath, "test.bat")))
        {
            //This writes the file line by line
            foreach (string line in lines)
                outputFile.WriteLine(line);
        }
        System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(path1);

    }

Like I said. It may be a little overcomplicated but it never fails unless I write the batch commands wrong.