Getting the ouput from Console window into Winform application

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I have a console application which does a set of operations and gives out messages after completion of each operation. When I run my console app, the messages in my console window may look like this:

Checking prerequisites...
Completing prerequisites..
Performing installation...
Completing installation...
Done..!

Now I'm executing this console application from one of my C# windows applications by using Process.StartInfo(). I need to get all the messages thrown by my console application to be displayed in the windows form of my application.

Can this be done?

Thanks.

possible duplicate of [Capturing the Console Output in .NET (C#)](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/186822/capturing-the-console-output-in-net-c) — RvdK, Jul 11 '11 at 12:39

score 4 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:19

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answered Jul 11 '11 at 12:32

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score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 11 '11 at 12:45

This can be quite easily achieved using the ProcessStartInfo.RedirectStandardOutput Property. A full sample is contained in the linked MSDN documentation.

Process compiler = new Process();
compiler.StartInfo.FileName = "csc.exe";
compiler.StartInfo.Arguments = "/r:System.dll /out:sample.exe stdstr.cs";
compiler.StartInfo.UseShellExecute = false;
compiler.StartInfo.RedirectStandardOutput = true;
compiler.Start();    

Console.WriteLine(compiler.StandardOutput.ReadToEnd());

compiler.WaitForExit();

Getting the ouput from Console window into Winform application

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