Here’s a quick function to show the use of System.Diagnostic.Process which will allow you to start another application using VB.NET. The example below is used to call svnadmin to create a new repository ( Subversion ) by grabbing the repository name. The function also checks to see whether the directory exist on the file system and if it doesn’t it will start the command prompt svnadmin to create the folder. However if the folder does exist it will nag at you.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 | Sub createRepo(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Dim repoName As String = repoNameInput.Text Dim dirExist As Boolean = False If System.IO.Directory.Exists("C:\svn_repository\" & repoName) Then dirExist = True result.Text = "<font color=""red"">Repository Already Exist !</font>" End If If (repoName.Length <> 0 And dirExist = False) Then Dim myProcess As Process = Process.Start("cmd.exe", "/k svnadmin create C:\svn_repository\" & repoName) myProcess.WaitForExit(10000) ' if the process doesn't complete within ' 10 seconds, kill it If Not myProcess.HasExited Then myProcess.Kill() End If result.Text = "Respository Created: " _ & myProcess.ExitTime & _ Environment.NewLine & _ "Exit Code (Troubleshooting Purpose): " & _ myProcess.ExitCode End If End Sub |
You will have to import the following library to have the Process.Start to work.
1 | Imports System.Diagnostics |
