How to Run a Command-Prompt Command in C#

This tutorial will discuss methods to run a Command-Prompt command in C#.

Run a Command-Prompt Command With the Process.Start() Function in C#

The Process class provides functionality to start and stop processes in C#. The Process.Start() function is used to start a process in C#. We can pass cmd.exe and the command as parameters to the Process.Start() function to start command-prompt with the specified command. The following code example shows us how we can run a command-prompt command with the Process.Start() function in C#.

using System.Diagnostics;

namespace run_cmd_command {
  class Program {
    static void Main(string[] args) {
      string command = "/C notepad.exe";
      Process.Start("cmd.exe", command);
    }
  }
}

We started the command-prompt cmd.exe and ran the command to open the notepad notepad.exe with the Process.Start() function in C#. The command string command has to start with /C for this method to work.