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What are you trying to accomplish? Are you trying to modify files, or display files on the screen?
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What are you trying to accomplish? Are you trying to modify files, or display files on the screen?

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Have a look at this. it is very straightforward.<br />
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<a href="https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/20588906/Shell-Command.html?query=shell&topics=323" rel="ugc">https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/20588906/Shell-Command.html?query=shell&topics=323</a>
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Have a look at this. it is very straightforward.

https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/20588906/Shell-Command.html?query=shell&topics=323 [https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/20588906/Shell-Command.html?query=shell&topics=323]

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gregasm isnt <br />
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Process.Start(&quot;cmd.exe&quot;, &quot;/C dir&quot;)<br />
and<br />
Shell(&quot;cmd.exe&quot;,&quot;/C dir&quot;) <br />
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nearly the same thing ? :)
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gregasm isnt

Process.Start("cmd.exe", "/C dir")
and
Shell("cmd.exe","/C dir")

nearly the same thing ? :)

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in fact shell calls Process.Start :P
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shell(&quot;explorer.exe &quot;&quot;c:\my music\&quot;&quot;&quot;)<br />
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something like that. right on.
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shell("explorer.exe ""c:\my music\""")

something like that. right on.

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ill look into this tonight. i am making my own command prompt and i was just gonna issue the commands (like suggested above) and return the results to my custom command prompt.
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ill look into this tonight. i am making my own command prompt and i was just gonna issue the commands (like suggested above) and return the results to my custom command prompt.

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well I suggest using the system.io.directoryinfo and system.io.fileinfo to get info and do some basic tasks. This way you have more control on what to show on the screen.<br />
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well I suggest using the system.io.directoryinfo and system.io.fileinfo to get info and do some basic tasks. This way you have more control on what to show on the screen.



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hello/<br />
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how do i call system commands such as 'dir', 'cd' etc<br />
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thanks / p
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hello/

how do i call system commands such as 'dir', 'cd' etc

thanks / p

How to call system commands

C# is an object-oriented programming language created in conjunction with Microsoft’s .NET framework. Compilation is usually done into the Microsoft Intermediate Language (MSIL), which is then JIT-compiled to native code (and cached) during execution in the Common Language Runtime (CLR).