Shell of cmd.exe in a textbox?

[phatty]

OK.. let me explain what I am trying to do and what I have already done.


What I have done: executed cmd.exe via CreateProcessA, with redirected stdoutput.. upon closing of the WritePipe, i get the stdoutput into my textbox as planned.

What I want to do: I want to have cmd.exe stay open, and be able to write to the stdin, and still receive output from the stdout. The problem is, I cannot figure out
how to do this since the output is not sent to stdout until the WritePipe is closed..

Is there a way I could manage this with threading or child or something or am I just
missing something simple. There is a working sample in VC++ @ http://www.angelfire.com/az/galore/Shell.zip , but I cannot seem to do the same thing in VB.net .. Let me know what you guys can figure out.

 

[Volte]

Look at the Process class in the MSDN. More specifically, look at the ProcessStartInfo.RedirectStandardOutput. This allows you to communicate with the stdin and stdout using I/O streams built into the .NET framework, rather than using complicated P/Invoke methods which would end up being more trouble than its worth.

 

[phatty]

I have looked at it.. I need to redirect StandardInput and StandardOutput, but the StandardOutput is not being sent until I close the WritePipe.. Thx for the suggestion though.. unless you know a way to get around that, I think I am stuck.