>Hello,
>I am running a .bat file in my application using the code: System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("c:\test.bat")
>
>I am wanting the application to stop until this .bat file is completely done. How can I do that? Thanks!!
>
>MAC


From an article I wrote in the UTMag (December 2003):

Wait for a launched process to end

This is a very frequent requirement. You want to start a process from your application, let it do its task and close, all this while your application is waiting for the launched process to stop before continuing.

As you will soon discover, the Process component makes it really (once again) simple!

Using the same code we already used to start the Notepad, we can simply add the call to the WaitForExit method to wait for the process to close before continuing (displaying the message box in my sample):

MyProcess.StartInfo.FileName = "notepad.exe"
MyProcess.StartInfo.WorkingDirectory = "c:\temp"
MyProcess.StartInfo.Arguments = "Test.txt"
MyProcess.Start()

MyProcess.WaitForExit()
MessageBox.Show("It was time!!!", "Process has now exited")

There is an overload to the WaitForExit method that accepts a number of milliseconds to wait. I strongly recommend that you look at this alternative because we never know if the process will be launched and closed correctly!