creating a wrapper for 3rd party software

Question

I want to write a c# wrapper for a CAD (computer aided design) system. To do this, I will need to do system calls to run the CAD software, and use the CAD system API. Although I can get the environment vars I need and so forth, I am not finding any documentation on how to actually make the call. Something like :

system(allegro.exe) ;
or
`allegro.exe` ;

How do I do this in c# ?

Alan · Answer

You can use the System.Diagnostics.Process class to start another executable: Process.Start(allegro.exe); Here's the documentation if you need further details: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.diagnostics.process.aspx

Ken Barrett · Answer

Excellent! Thanks very much!!