Capturing console output from a .NET application (C#)

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Gripsoft picture Gripsoft · Oct 9, 2008 · Viewed 127.2k times · Source

How do I invoke a console application from my .NET application and capture all the output generated in the console?

(Remember, I don't want to save the information first in a file and then relist as I would love to receive it as live.)

Answer

mdb picture mdb · Oct 9, 2008

This can be quite easily achieved using the ProcessStartInfo.RedirectStandardOutput property. A full sample is contained in the linked MSDN documentation; the only caveat is that you may have to redirect the standard error stream as well to see all output of your application.

Process compiler = new Process();
compiler.StartInfo.FileName = "csc.exe";
compiler.StartInfo.Arguments = "/r:System.dll /out:sample.exe stdstr.cs";
compiler.StartInfo.UseShellExecute = false;
compiler.StartInfo.RedirectStandardOutput = true;
compiler.Start();    

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

compiler.WaitForExit();

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