How to call a software several times and collect the results , in C#

It sounds like you need the System.Diagnostics.Process class to run another application from your C# program.

If the other application is a console application which prints results to the console, then you can redirect the output so your C# program can read it. There's an example in the MSDN link below:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.diagnostics.processstartinfo.redirectstandardoutput.aspx

If the other application is a GUI application, then (if there's any choice in the matter) it would probably be easiest for it to write its results to a text file which you can then read from your program using a StreamReader. It is possible to read results directly from labels, textboxes and other controls but this is more difficult as you need to call various Win32 API functions.

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Alan18y ago
It sounds like you need the System.Diagnostics.Process class to run another application from your C# program.

If the other application is a console application which prints results to the console, then you can redirect the output so your C# program can read it. There's an example in the MSDN link below:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.diagnostics.processstartinfo.redirectstandardoutput.aspx

If the other application is a GUI application, then (if there's any choice in the matter) it would probably be easiest for it to write its results to a text file which you can then read from your program using a StreamReader. It is possible to read results directly from labels, textboxes and other controls but this is more difficult as you need to call various Win32 API functions.
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