How to call exe from webpage

In this Blog you will see How to call exe from webpage.

Step 1: Create button

Add three buttons, for notepad, calculator and command prompt. Further add style to the button.



Step 2: Generate Click event of button

Generate Click event for each button.

Step 3:Call exe using System.Diagnostics

On the click event of first button place following code

         System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("C:\\WINDOWS\\system32\\notepad.exe");

On the click event of second button place following code
 

    System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("C:\\WINDOWS\\system32\\calc.exe");
 
On the click event of third button place following code

    System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("C:\\WINDOWS\\system32\\cmd.exe");

The start method is used to execute an exe from web page. The start method is a member of Process class which is under System.Diagnostics name space.

Step 4: Click on any button

Clicking on Notepad button will open notepad from the specified path in the click event

Clicking on Calculator button will open Calculator from the specified path in the click event

Clicking on Command Prompt button will open Command Prompt from the specified path in the click event