Execute console command and get its output

Question

I'm wondering, in Visual Basic 2008, how to execute an external console (commandline) command and get its output without help of an intermediate file (to speed up)?

Answer 1

Have a look at ProcessStartInfo.RedirectStandardOutput and Process.StandardOutput.

Example:

compiler.StartInfo.FileName = "csc.exe"
compiler.StartInfo.Arguments = "/r:System.dll /out:sample.exe stdstr.cs"
compiler.StartInfo.UseShellExecute = False
compiler.StartInfo.RedirectStandardOutput = True
compiler.Start()

Console.WriteLine(compiler.StandardOutput.ReadToEnd())

compiler.WaitForExit()