Programmatically start a .NET Core web app for Selenium testing

Question

I am currently trying to setup some UI tests on a Core web app, however I am not able to get the web app started. Using the command line directly with "dotnet run" from the web app directory works. The problem comes when I try to use Process to run it before executing my tests nothing happens.

    var process = new Process
    {
        StartInfo =
        {
            FileName = "dotnet",
            Arguments = "run",
            WorkingDirectory = applicationPath
        }
    };
    process.Start();

Has anyone been confronted to a similar issue before and/or managed to solve it? I may be misusing Process.

Answer 1

Turns that adding UseShellExecute to my StartInfo and setting it to false made it work:

var process = new Process
{
    StartInfo =
    {
        FileName = "dotnet",
        Arguments = "run",
        UseShellExecute = false,
        WorkingDirectory = applicationPath
    }
};
process.Start();

The default for UseShellExecute is true but it would be similar to running cmd dotnet run instead of dotnet run which is what I needed.