How to send and Retrieve Data from Command Prompt by using Code(C#)

[ManojKumar3]

Hi team, i need to call command prompt and send required commands to execute it has well as retrieve data based on its response from code Activity(c# code). i am not able to achieve it through code. is someone tried this ???if yes then can you please share your thoughts or code from your side. thanks

[Denis__Dennehy]

Take some time to go through all the utiliity objects/VBOs that are distributed with the Blue Prism product - it is part of the recommended training path. The environment utility object includes a couple of start process actions that can be used to run command lines. If you need to also retrive the output you could pipe it into a text file that you could read (using one of the other utility objects) or you could create your own version of the start process action that returns an output.

[ManojKumar3]

Hi Denis, Thanks for the Reply Actually i did try to implement the above approach by using the existing VBO but then i was not able to retrieve the data from command prompt where i got empty value .so thats what forced me to try another option ie writing a direct C# code to fetch and Retrieve data from Command Prompt . Thanks Manoj