Creating a process in ASP.NET MVC controller
- by GRKamath
I have a requirement to run an application through my MVC controller. To get the installation path I used following link (I used answer provided by Fredrik Mörk). It worked and I could able to run the exe through a process. The problem occurred when I deployed this solution on IIS where it did not create the process as it was creating in local dev environment. Can anybody tell me how to create a windows process through a solution which is hosted on IIS ?
private string GetPathForExe(string fileName)
{
private const string keyBase = @"SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\MyApplication";
RegistryKey localMachine = Registry.LocalMachine;
RegistryKey fileKey = localMachine.OpenSubKey(string.Format(@"{0}\{1}", keyBase, fileName));
object result = null;
if (fileKey != null)
{
result = fileKey.GetValue("InstallPath");
}
fileKey.Close();
return (string)result;
}
public void StartMyApplication()
{
Process[] pname = Process.GetProcessesByName("MyApplication");
if (pname.Length == 0)
{
string appDirectory = GetPathForExe("MyApplication");
Directory.SetCurrentDirectory(appDirectory);
ProcessStartInfo procStartInfo = new ProcessStartInfo("MyApplication.exe");
procStartInfo.WindowStyle = ProcessWindowStyle.Hidden;
Process proc = new Process();
proc.StartInfo = procStartInfo;
proc.Start();
}
}
