A process host for Windows (Vista and later) that is more reliable and flexible than System.Diagnostics.Process
Allows run-time reading from std error and output, and writing to std input.
Like this
using (var proc = new ProcessHost("my.exe", @"C:\temp\")) {
proc.Start();
}Or,
using (var proc = new ProcessHost(msBuildExe, projectDir)) {
proc.Start(projectFile + " /t:Publish");
int resultCode;
if (!proc.WaitForExit(TimeSpan.FromMinutes(1), out resultCode))
{
proc.Kill();
throw new Exception("Publish killed -- took too long");
}
File.AppendAllText(logFile, proc.StdOut.ReadAllText(Encoding.UTF8));
File.AppendAllText(logFile, proc.StdErr.ReadAllText(Encoding.UTF8));
if (resultCode != 0)
{
throw new Exception("Publish failure: see \"" + logFile + "\" for details");
}
}