Read comamnd prompt output and displaying in User Interface

Question

Hey Guys Creating a small tool with c# which will fetch the values displayed in the command prompt and display in an User Interface. I run the below command in Command prompt Corflags.exe MyApplication.exe Output: Microsoft (R) .NET Framework CorFlags Conversion Tool. Version 3.5.30729.1 Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Version : v2.0.50727 CLR Header: 2.5 PE : PE32 CorFlags : 11 ILONLY : 1 32BIT : 1 Signed : 1 I want to read the value of CLR Header 32BIT PE in the command prompt and want to display in a Text box in my front end. How do i fetch the values ? Please assist. Cheers

Vulpes · Answer

For some reason I don't have corflags.exe on my system so I'm assuming the output is exactly as you've posted it. As it's a console application you'll need to redirect the output in order to capture it. The following code should do it. It's assumed that the TextBox is multi-line: using System.Diagnostics; using System.Text.RegularExpressions; // ... Process p = new Process(); p.StartInfo.UseShellExecute = false; p.StartInfo.RedirectStandardOutput = true; p.StartInfo.FileName = corflags.exe; // may need to specify full path here p.StartInfo.Arguments = MyApplication.exe; // ditto p.Start(); string output = p.StandardOutput.ReadToEnd(); p.WaitForExit(); string regExp = @(?m)^.*$; MatchCollection mc = Regex.Matches(output regExp); var dict = new Dictionary (); foreach(Match m in mc) { if(m.Value.Contains(:)) { string[] items = Regex.Split(m.Value @\s*:\s*); dict.Add(items[0].TrimStart() items[1].TrimEnd()); } } string[] lines = new string[3]; lines[0] = String.Format(CLR Header : {0} dict[CLR Header]); lines[1] = String.Format(32BIT : {0} dict[32BIT]); lines[2] = String.Format(PE : {0} dict[PE]); textBox1.Lines = lines;