Re: Process.Start Problem with WaitForExit(), WaitForExit DOES NOT WA

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From: Richard A. Lowe (chadich_at_yumspamyumYahoo.com)
Date: 12/22/04 

Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 22:46:13 -0600

Well, what are you batch files doing? It's possible, I guess, that they are
starting other processes in a way that they do not block the .bat file
process. 

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"James Li" <JamesLi@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
news:BCAA32AA-8144-41DF-9018-B7C2D7E8E337@microsoft.com...
>I have the code below, the first process takes about 10 minutes to finish.
> But the waitForExit doesn't seem to wait when I debug the program, it go
> immediately to execute code after the WaitForExit().  The first process
> basically launch a DOS batch file to do some task, am I missing anything?
>
> executable = "setup_listener.bat";
> process1 = new Process();
> process1.StartInfo.UseShellExecute = false;
> process1.StartInfo.CreateNoWindow = false;
> process1.StartInfo.WindowStyle = ProcessWindowStyle.Hidden;
> process1.StartInfo.FileName = executable;
> //process1.StartInfo.RedirectStandardOutput = true;
> process1.Start();
> process1.WaitForExit();
>
> executable = "create_xdb_service.bat";
> process3 = new Process();
> process3.StartInfo.UseShellExecute = false;
> process3.StartInfo.CreateNoWindow = false;
> process3.StartInfo.WindowStyle = ProcessWindowStyle.Hidden;
> process3.StartInfo.FileName = executable;
> //process3.StartInfo.RedirectStandardOutput = true;
> process3.Start();
> process3.WaitForExit();

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