Question:

I'm using the data ready events of the Process class to get information from the standard output and standard error of a running process.

It works great on the first run, but after calling Stop() then Start() to force a restart of the application, I no longer recieve data. I've tried CancelErrorRead() but no luck there.

I'm considering just re-instantiating the object every time I need to re-run the app, but it seems silly to need to do that.

Any advice on how to re-use a Process object to restart a stopped process?

Relevant code chunks:

Constructor:

ProcessStartInfo objStartInfo = new ProcessStartInfo(); objStartInfo.CreateNoWindow = true; objStartInfo.RedirectStandardInput = true; objStartInfo.RedirectStandardOutput = true; objStartInfo.RedirectStandardError = true; objStartInfo.UseShellExecute = false; objClient = new Process(); objClient.StartInfo = objStartInfo; objClient.EnableRaisingEvents = true; objClient.OutputDataReceived += new DataReceivedEventHandler(read); objClient.ErrorDataReceived += new DataReceivedEventHandler(error);

Start:

objClient.StartInfo.FileName = strAppPath; objClient.StartInfo.Arguments = strArgs; start(); objClient.BeginErrorReadLine(); objClient.BeginOutputReadLine();

Stop:

objClient.Close(); objClient.CancelErrorRead(); objClient.CancelOutputRead();

Your Process object is not associated with a process until you call Start() (or use one of the static methods off Process). A stopped/closed process is functionally the same as no process at all. Given that, it's hard to believe there's any overhead to creating a new Process object, when compared to the (relatively enormous) cost of creating processes on Windows. Just create new Process objects as needed.

According to msdn you should call BeginOutputReadLine and BeginErrorReadLine to enable asynchronous reads from StandardOutput or StandardError using events.

Have a look at the remarks section on <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.diagnostics.process.beginoutputreadline.aspx" rel="nofollow">BeginOutputReadLine</a>