Unable to run cmd.exe in hosted web application?

Question

Hi
I have to execute a cmd.exe in web application to merge a file.My code work fine on my dev environment. But on hosting the
application on server unable to run the cmd.exe . Below is the code.
 ProcessStartInfo processStartInfo = new ProcessStartInfo("cmd.exe");
                    processStartInfo.RedirectStandardInput = true;
                    processStartInfo.RedirectStandardOutput = true;
                    processStartInfo.UseShellExecute = false;
                    Process process = Process.Start(processStartInfo);
                    if (process != null)
                        process.StandardInput.WriteLine("c:");
                        process.StandardInput.WriteLine("xcopy " + srcfilename + " " + destfilename + "
/a /m /d /s /e /v");
                        // process.StandardInput.WriteLine("a");
                        process.StandardInput.Close(); // line added to stop process from hanging on ReadToEnd()
                        string outputString = process.StandardOutput.ReadToEnd();
                        process.Close();
                        // process.Kill();                   
Pawan

Answer 1

What is the hosting you are using on azure? Hosted your application as Azure web site or cloud service?
If it is a azure cloud service - you will either need to define the start up tasks to do the same or need to run your azure roles in elevated context.
Read more - https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/azure/gg456327.aspx
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg557553.aspx#Runtime
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