Visual C# GUI stops responding when process.WaitForExit(); is used

Question

I am creating a GUI application using Visual C# 2005 (net framework 2). I use the following code to start a process:

Process process = new Process();
process.StartInfo = new ProcessStartInfo("app.exe");
process.StartInfo.WorkingDirectory = "";
process.StartInfo.Arguments = "some arguments";
process.Start();
process.WaitForExit();

I want my application to wait until this process is finished, so I used WaitForExit. But the GUI Windows freezes while app.exe is running. I want it to respond (e.g. press a cancel button), but I don't want the code to continue, because there is another process to start after than. Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

You can capture the Exited event of the Process class:

void someMethod()
{
    //...possibly more code here
    Process process = new Process();
    process.StartInfo = new ProcessStartInfo("app.exe");
    process.StartInfo.WorkingDirectory = "";
    process.StartInfo.Arguments = "some arguments";
    process.Exited += new EventHandler(ProcessExited);
    process.Start();
}

void ProcessExited(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
{
  //Handle process exit here
}