CreateProcess and CreatePipe to execute a process and return output as a string in VC++

Question

I am trying to use CreateProcess and CreatePipe to execute a process from within a Windows Forms C++/CLR application in Visual Studio 2010.

Answer 1

Thanks to Hans Passant for the lead that got me to this clear and simple piece of code that does exactly what I was looking for.

/// this namespace call is necessary for the rest of the code to work
using namespace System::Diagnostics;
using namespace System::Text;/// added for encoding

Process^ myprocess = gcnew Process;
Encoding^ Encoding;/// added for encoding
Encoding->GetEncoding(GetOEMCP());/// added for encoding

myprocess->StartInfo->FileName = "ping.exe";
myprocess->StartInfo->Arguments = "127.0.0.1";
myprocess->StartInfo->UseShellExecute = false;

/// added the next line to keep a new window from opening
myprocess->StartInfo->CreateNoWindow = true;

myprocess->StartInfo->RedirectStandardOutput = true;
myprocess->StartInfo->StandardOutputEncoding = Encoding;/// added for encoding
myprocess->Start();

String^ output = gcnew String( myprocess->StandardOutput->ReadToEnd() );

myprocess->WaitForExit();

/// OutputBox is the name of a Windows Forms text box in my app.
OutputBox->Text = output;

EDIT: Added encoding information. See above code.