How to give permission to a C# Console application from Asp.NET web application?

Question

When I try to launch my console application from my web application on my local machine it works perfect, but when I try to do it on hosting server after publish I get "Access is denied" error.

This is the code where I call the console application, in case of that if you want.

      try
            {
                ProcessStartInfo startinfo = new ProcessStartInfo();
                startinfo.FileName = Server.MapPath("~/ConsoleApplications/WebConsol.exe");
                startinfo.CreateNoWindow = true;
                startinfo.UseShellExecute = true;
                Process myProcess = Process.Start(startinfo);
            }
            catch (Exception ex)
            {
                Response.Write(ex.Message);
                if (ex.InnerException != null)
                {
                    Response.Write(ex.InnerException);
                }
            }

How can I give permission to the console application in order to avoid "Access is denied" error? Do I need to to it in my project or is it about web hosting server?

Note: I want to launch the console application to use as TCP server to implement a tcp listener.

Edit: My hosting provider is Arvixe.

Why do you need to launch a console window from your web application? What are you trying to do by doing that? It could be a trust issue; who's your provider? — George Stocker, Jul 31 '15 at 11:19
ask the provider if it is allowed to do that. should you succeed you may discover that the server is accessible only on port 80/443 (not unusual) so your listener cannot be reached. also your account may be terminated if this behaviour is not supported and/or explicitly forbidden. — Paolo, Jul 31 '15 at 12:31

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:30

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As mention in another answer, you should add these lines of code:

startinfo.UserName = username;
startinfo.Password = MakeSecureString(password);

plus:

startinfo.UserShellExecute = false;

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edited May 23 '17 at 12:30

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answered Jul 31 '15 at 13:57

Vladimir Zhukov

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 31 '15 at 12:24

Do you have enough privilege in the hosting environment to run such application?

If you do, try setting the username and password of account who has privilege to execute it:

startinfo.UserName = username;
startinfo.Password = MakeSecureString(password);

How to give permission to a C# Console application from Asp.NET web application?

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