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Process Start How To Executable under Apps , Not in Background Process

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I setting my WorkerService appsettings.json like below
"AppRun": {
"App1": {
"AppName": "CheckDataForm",
"AppPath": "D:\\2021-Project\\Project\\CheckDataForm-MSSQL\\CheckDataForm\\bin\\Debug\\net5.0-windows\\CheckDataForm.exe"
},
"App2": {
"AppName": "notepad++",
"AppPath": "C:\\Program Files\\Notepad++\\notepad++.exe"
},
and call the app like this:
//i is foreach count
var AppName = _config["AppRun:App"+i+":AppName"];
var AppPath = _config["AppRun:App" + i + ":AppPath"];
//check file exist
var fileExist = System.IO.File.Exists(AppPath);
if ( !String.IsNullOrEmpty (AppName) && !String.IsNullOrEmpty(AppPath) &&
fileExist )
{
//find APP
var processApp = Process.GetProcessesByName(AppName);
//can't find app
if (processApp.Length <=0 )
{
try
{
Process proc = new Process();
proc.StartInfo.FileName = AppPath;
proc.StartInfo.WorkingDirectory =
System.IO.Path.GetDirectoryName(AppPath);
proc.StartInfo.CreateNoWindow = false;
proc.StartInfo.WindowStyle =
ProcessWindowStyle.Maximized;
proc.Start();
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
var error = ex;
}
}
}
the Process can Start notepad++ And CheckDataForm , but notepad++ And CheckDataForm AP run in [Background processes] , I need AP Run in [Apps]
How To Executable under Apps , Not in Background Process
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You can execute the program using the CMD:
Process proc = new Process();
proc.StartInfo.FileName = "CMD";
proc.StartInfo.WorkingDirectory = System.IO.Path.GetDirectoryName(AppPath);
proc.StartInfo.Arguments = "/C "+AppPath;
proc.StartInfo.WindowStyle = ProcessWindowStyle.Maximized;
proc.Start();
That way will be ran as if you run it as the logged user.
Since you are using a Service, you could use a predefined TASK from the Task Scheduler to run the program:
var ts = new TaskService();
var task = ts.FindTask("mainTVMTask2");
task.Run();
The nugget package used was:
TaskScheduler by David Hall
This last code is being used right now to keep an app running, the service is checking if the process is in the process list, if its not, will run that task, previusly created in the Task Scheduler.
You might choose the user that will be logged in order to run the process instead of the service that will run with System Account.
The action is a standard run command to start the program that you need.

Calling WSL bash.exe from C#

Mostly just as a curiosity, I wrote a little app to start up Terminator shell on Windows, using Ubuntu/WSL and Xming window server.
Doing things manually from the shell, I can run Firefox, gedit, Terminator, etc on Windows, it's pretty cool.
So I checked the location of bash.exe using where bash and it returned...
C:\Windows\System32\bash.exe
However when I tried to run this code...
using (var xminProc = new Process())
{
xminProc.StartInfo.FileName = #"C:\Program Files (x86)\Xming\Xming.exe";
xminProc.StartInfo.Arguments = ":0 -clipboard -multiwindow";
xminProc.StartInfo.CreateNoWindow = true;
xminProc.Start();
}
using (var bashProc = new Process())
{
bashProc.StartInfo.FileName = #"C:\Windows\System32\bash.exe";
bashProc.StartInfo.Arguments = "-c \"export DISPLAY=:0; terminator; \"";
bashProc.StartInfo.CreateNoWindow = true;
bashProc.Start();
}
I get the error...
System.ComponentModel.Win32Exception: 'The system cannot find the file specified'
And checking my entire system for bash.exe reveals it really be in another place altogether...
I'm not sure if this location is one that I can rely on, I'm worried it's ephemeral and can change during a Windows Store update, although I may be wrong about that.
Why does the command prompt show bash.exe to be in System32 but it's really in another location altogether?
Can I get C# to also use the System32 location?

As #Biswapriyo stated first set the platafrom to x64 on your solution:
Then you may run on your ubuntu machine from c# as:
Console.WriteLine("Enter command to execute on your Ubuntu GNU/Linux");
var commandToExecute = Console.ReadLine();
// if command is null use 'ifconfig' for demo purposes
if (string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(commandToExecute))
{
commandToExecute = "ifconfig";
}
// Execute wsl command:
using (var proc = new Process
{
StartInfo = new ProcessStartInfo
{
FileName = #"cmd.exe",
UseShellExecute = false,
RedirectStandardOutput = true,
RedirectStandardInput = true,
CreateNoWindow = true,
}
})
{
proc.Start();
proc.StandardInput.WriteLine("wsl " + commandToExecute);
System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(500); // give some time for command to execute
proc.StandardInput.Flush();
proc.StandardInput.Close();
proc.WaitForExit(5000); // wait up to 5 seconds for command to execute
Console.WriteLine(proc.StandardOutput.ReadToEnd());
Console.ReadLine();
}

Unable to run python script in c# which runs scrapy spider

I followed this_link and I was able to run a dummy python file from my c# code like this...
public JsonResult FetchscrapyDataUrl(String website)
{
ProcessStartInfo start = new ProcessStartInfo();
start.FileName = #"C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\python.exe";
start.Arguments = #"C:\Users\PycharmProjects\scraping_web\scrape_info\main.py";
//this is path to .py file from scrapy project
start.CreateNoWindow = false; // We don't need new window
start.UseShellExecute = false; // Do not use OS shell
//start.RedirectStandardOutput = true;// Any output, generated by application will be redirected back
start.RedirectStandardError = true; // Any error in standard output will be redirected back (for example exceptions)
Console.WriteLine("Python Starting");
start.RedirectStandardOutput = true;
using (Process process = Process.Start(start))
{
using (StreamReader reader = process.StandardOutput)
{
string stderr = process.StandardError.ReadToEnd(); // Here are the exceptions from our Python script
string result = reader.ReadToEnd(); // Here is the result of StdOut(for example: print "test")
Console.Write(result);
}
}
}
Now I know that I can run scrapy spider from a single file main.py like this...
from scrapy import cmdline
cmdline.execute("scrapy crawl text".split())
When I run main.py file from cmd in windows it works fine but it does not work when I run it from C# code .Net framework. The error is ...
"Scrapy 1.4.0 - no active project\r\n\r\nUnknown command: crawl\r\n\r\nUse \"scrapy\" to see available commands\r\n"
Any Idea how to run this...Or am i missing some path setting in windows ??
Or should I run my spider from C# in some other way??

You need to set the WorkingDirectory property
start.WorkingDirectory = #"C:\Users\PycharmProjects\scraping_web\scrape_info\"
Or you need to cd to that directory to make it work

externally access processing via cmd

As I aksed in another post, I am trying to automate running processing ide from c#. Finally I found the way to run the processing sketch via cmd, with setting the installed processing folder in the path of evironment variable.
I find it works with inputting command directly in cmd.exe, but when I want to do the same thing through some c# code in Visual Studio, it doesn't run the .pde file.
Here is the code,
using System;
using System.Diagnostics;
namespace ConsoleApplication1
{
class Runprocessing
{
static void Main()
{
Process process = new Process();
ProcessStartInfo stinfo = new ProcessStartInfo();
stinfo.FileName = "cmd.exe";
stinfo.Arguments = "/c"+"processing-java --run --sketch=D:\\pw --output=D:\\pw\\output";
stinfo.CreateNoWindow = true;
stinfo.UseShellExecute = false;
process = Process.Start(stinfo);
process.WaitForExit();
process.Close();
process.Dispose();
}
}
}
My question is, how should I properly use processing-java to activate the sketch. because here I am stating
stinfo.FileName = "cmd.exe";
stinfo.Arguments = "/c"+"processing-java --run --sketch=D:\\pw --output=D:\\pw\\output";
Is this the right way to use processing-java in cmd?

C# System.Diagnostics.Process launches on my local IIS, but doesn't launch on the server

I'm trying to make my program to run a bat file, that launches an exe file. It works fine on my local computer, but doesn't work on the server IIS. It doesn't work regardless of whether I specify the username and password in the ProcessStartInfo or not. I've searched forums and applied different stuff, but none of them help.
In Windows event viewer it doesn't give me any errors as well as the process output. If I change a directory and it can't find the bat file, the output gives me an error, but when it finds the file, it doesn't return anything and just doesn't launch the program.
Now, if I provide a credentials for the process, specifying psi.Domain, psi.UserName and psi. Password, the StandartOutput doesn't return any error, but Windows Events gives me two following errors:
Application popup: cmd.exe - Application Error : The application was unable to start correctly (0xc0000142). Click OK to close the application.
And
Application popup: conhost.exe - Application Error : The application was unable to start correctly (0xc0000142). Click OK to close the application.
Here's the code:
System.Diagnostics.ProcessStartInfo psi = new System.Diagnostics.ProcessStartInfo(#"C:\inetpub\CopyToAD\pspasswd\passchange.bat");
psi.RedirectStandardOutput = true;
psi.RedirectStandardInput = true;
psi.RedirectStandardError = true;
psi.CreateNoWindow = true;
psi.WindowStyle = System.Diagnostics.ProcessWindowStyle.Hidden;
psi.UseShellExecute = false;
System.Diagnostics.Process listFiles;
listFiles = new System.Diagnostics.Process();
listFiles.EnableRaisingEvents = false;
listFiles.StartInfo = psi;
listFiles.Start();
System.IO.StreamReader myOutput = listFiles.StandardOutput;
listFiles.WaitForExit(2000);
myOutput.ReadToEnd();
string output = myOutput.ReadToEnd();
ViewBag.View6 += output + "***";
if (listFiles.HasExited)
{
output = myOutput.ReadToEnd();
ViewBag.View6 += output;
}