Opening External Applications

[budidharma]

I have a openFileDialog which allows the user to specify the location of an application to open. He also selects times to open and close the application. Now all I need to know how to do is run the application. ;) So ... does anyone know how to execute an external application that has the path to the executable specified? Thanks!

[XRaheemX]

System.Diagnostics.Process here is an example of running PING with some arguments:

using System.Diagnostics;

public void RunPing()
{
   Process p = new Process();
   p.StartInfo.Arguments = "www.codeproject.com";
   p.StartInfo.FileName = "ping.exe";
   p.StartInfo.WindowStyle = ProcessWindowStyle.Normal;
   p.Start();
   p.WaitForExit(5000); // Use this to pause the code until the application closes (this one times out and continues anyway after 5 seconds)
}