C#: Executing dos commands without opening the console window

while googling i encountered a superb post at one of the blogs of Microsoft developers, in which it there was a discussion on executing a dos command and reading the output. This interested me a lot.

Ive developed small programs which were simple front end GUI for dos commands. While executing the programs, the dos console always popped up. This was very annoying, i wanted it not to appear and still execute the dos command.

I wanted to read the output of the dos command, execute the command without command window popping up.

The following code is about opening a "cmd" and executing a "ipconfig" command without window showing up from the console. This would be effective while executing the code from a Windows Form rather than.

I beleive that guys with basic .NET programming skill can understand this and PORT it to a windows FORM application.

the code goes as follows....

this code will open a invisible dos command window, execute the command and read the output into a string variable.


i have referred this post, before writing this small article
without dos window, execute dos commands