Executing a program and passing parameters using ProcessStartInfo

Question

I am trying to run an application and pass parameters from within a c# desktop application.  It appears to attempt to execute but it doesn’t run and the exeProcess shows errors in the locals.
Here is the code:
ProcessStartInfo startBin2TextApp =
new
ProcessStartInfo(strNowRunThis, strDataFile +
" a");
startBin2TextApp.CreateNoWindow =
true;
startBin2TextApp.UseShellExecute =
false;          startBin2TextApp.WindowStyle =
ProcessWindowStyle.Hidden;
Process exeProcess =
null;
exeProcess = Process.Start(startBin2TextApp);
This is what is in the Arguments when Process.Start(startBin2TextApp) is ready to execute.
Arguments         "C:\\Users\\10065421\\Documents\\ab\\Working\\Projects\\Panel Explorer\\B640130A.DAT a"             
After the line is executed, exeProcess shows an error in most of the attributes.  For instance, BasePriority shows “exeProcess.BaePriority” threw an exception of type “System.InvalidOperationException”.
I ran this from the command prompt so I know it runs on this machine with the same parameters I am using in the code.
Any ideas?
Thanks.

Answer 1

Here is the complete code:
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using System.IO;
using System.Diagnostics;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
namespace PanelExplorerV1
    public
class
CommonCode
public
delegate
void
PassStatusBackFunction(string
msg);
public
void RunBinToText(PassStatusBackFunction
messageCallback)
try
string strStartDirectory =
string strDataPath =
string strDataFile =
string strDataFileTitle =
string strBin2TextPath =
string strDestinationDirectory;
string strNowRunThis =
//int intReturnValue = 0;
                strStartDirectory =
Application.StartupPath;
OpenFileDialog dlgCommonDialog =
new
OpenFileDialog();
//CommonDialog dlgCommonDiaglog = new CommonDialog();
                dlgCommonDialog.FileName =
//dlgCommonDialog.CancelError = true;
                dlgCommonDialog.Filter =
"Binary Data Files (*.dat)|*.dat|All Files (*.*)|*.*";
                dlgCommonDialog.ShowDialog();
                strDataFile = dlgCommonDialog.FileName;
                strDataFileTitle = dlgCommonDialog.Title;
                if
(strDataFile.Length == 0)
return;
                strDataPath =
Path.GetDirectoryName(strDataFile);
object argumentHolder = 1;
                messageCallback("Extracting data from
" + strDataFile +
"!!!  Please Wait");
                strBin2TextPath = strStartDirectory +
"\\" +
"Bin2Txt.exe";
                strDestinationDirectory = strDataPath +
"\\" +
"Bin2Txt.exe";
                System.IO.File.Copy(strBin2TextPath,
strDestinationDirectory);
                strNowRunThis = strDestinationDirectory;
ProcessStartInfo startBin2TextApp =
new
ProcessStartInfo(strNowRunThis, strDataFile +
" a");
                startBin2TextApp.CreateNoWindow =
true;
                startBin2TextApp.UseShellExecute =
false;         
                startBin2TextApp.WindowStyle =
ProcessWindowStyle.Hidden;
                Process
exeProcess = null;
                exeProcess =
Process.Start(startBin2TextApp);
                messageCallback("Finished Extracting
data from " + strDataFile);
return;
catch (InvalidOperationException
inEx)
Console.WriteLine(inEx.Message);