I'm trying to open a exe in a form with below code.
This is open my program but outside the form.I want to have this program inside of my form. Please Help Regards
Process p = new Process();
p.StartInfo.FileName = @"C:\Program Files\Cadence Design Systems\Allegro Free Physical Viewers 16.6\tools\pcb\bin\allegro_free_viewer";
p.StartInfo.Arguments = "ProcessStart.cs";
p.Start();
p.WaitForExit();
p.StartInfo.RedirectStandardOutput = true;
p.StartInfo.UseShellExecute = false;
You can not run other application within your application using process, you can do it with Object Linking and Embedding and the application you want to open from within your application should be complaint with ole. This codeproject article explains how you can embed acrobat document within c# application.
If what you're saying is that you want to have a window inside your Windows Form application, this isn't easily possible.
Your best bet would be to setup an MDI Host Window, and use the WinAPI FindWindow and SetParent to find the external process window (once started), and set the parent of this window to your own form host window.
Something like this (after importing the methods) should work:
Process p = new Process();
p.StartInfo.FileName = @"C:\Program Files\Cadence Design Systems\Allegro Free Physical Viewers 16.6\tools\pcb\bin\allegro_free_viewer.exe";
p.StartInfo.Arguments = "ProcessStart.cs";
p.Start();
var handle = FindWindow(null, "allegro_free_viewer.exe");
SetParent(handle, this.Handle);
p.WaitForExit();
Of course, the better way is to see if the application is able to provide an ActiveX / OLE control that you're able to embed into your application, rather than using an external process.
