Run a second project from within the same solution

Question

I've been tasked with building a custom updater but are struggling with how to run this. I could of course just create a separate app to take care of this but it is preferred that it all stay in the same solution. In my solution I have the project "Main" which is a Forms application and the project "AutoUpdater" which is a console application.

My idea was to have "Main" run the "AutoUpdater" console app in a separate process or possibly have the program copy the autoupdater.exe in a temp folder and then run it from there (to prevent file lock)

But how to I tell Main to run AutoUpdater?

Answer 1

您可以使用Process.Start通过提供路径来运行 AutoUpdater exe。

Answer 2

in your main declare a using.

using AutoUpdater;

Then you have easy acces to start the Console.

Answer 3

Use the AutoUpdater project's Post build event to copy the output to a location where the Main application can access.

Read more here : https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/ide/how-to-specify-build-events-csharp?view=vs-2019

and/or you can add the AutoUpdater's directory to Path Environment variable and use just the executable name in Process.Start method.