Output text to another console window in c#

[ta3]

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public static void workerThread()
        {
            ProcessStartInfo exec = new ProcessStartInfo("cmd.exe");
            exec.RedirectStandardInput = true;
            exec.RedirectStandardOutput = true;
            exec.RedirectStandardError = true;
            exec.UseShellExecute = false;    
            Process p = Process.Start(exec);
            System.IO.StreamWriter streamWriter = p.StandardInput;
            System.IO.StreamReader streamReader = p.StandardOutput;

            streamWriter.WriteLine("thread started");             

            for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++)
            {
                   streamWriter.WriteLine("Time is..{0}",DateTime.Now.TimeOfDay.ToString());
               
                   Thread.Sleep(500);
            }
            streamWriter.WriteLine("Thread Closing");
            streamReader.Close();

        }

I'm having a hard time on this one. It seems it doesn't show the console window with text in it.

Is there a way to sort this out?

What I want is to output a certain text in another console window just for monitoring of process resources.




tnx,
ta3

[eax]

public static void workerThread()
        {
            ProcessStartInfo exec = new ProcessStartInfo("cmd.exe");
            exec.RedirectStandardInput = true;
            exec.RedirectStandardOutput = true;
            exec.RedirectStandardError = true;
            exec.UseShellExecute = false;    
            Process p = Process.Start(exec);
            System.IO.StreamWriter streamWriter = p.StandardInput;
            System.IO.StreamReader streamReader = p.StandardOutput;

            streamWriter.WriteLine("thread started");             

            for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++)
            {
                   streamWriter.WriteLine("Time is..{0}",DateTime.Now.TimeOfDay.ToString());
               
                   Thread.Sleep(500);
            }
            streamWriter.WriteLine("Thread Closing");
            streamReader.Close();

        }

I'm having a hard time on this one. It seems it doesn't show the console window with text in it.

Is there a way to sort this out?

What I want is to output a certain text in another console window just for monitoring of process resources.




tnx,
ta3

Why not use logging tools like log4net?

[ta3]

Thanks eax. I'll look for that one.

[tracernet_v2]

how about exec.UseShellExecute = true; ?

[ta3]

I tried that one but to no avail...it throws an error.

[silent-kill]

what about SendMessage PostMessage API?

i dont know if its gonna work in console though.. it works on winApps.

if this is for logging.. you'd probably want to just write a file yourself.

[ta3]

Well here's the thing. I have a Console Application in which it monitors a certain application and I create another thread to get its process resources every 10 seconds such as memory usage, thread count..etc..and log it to a file...well I already made that up but the thing is every time I log the process resources I want to output it in another console window so that I would not open the log file just to see data.

[silent-kill]

sounds like .Net remoting you might want to check that out