Looking into this, I suspect you're going to have to create the process using WMI through the COM interface. At the end of the day, that makes this a very difficult option and very subject to failure due to a host of reasons (WMI being disabled or secured, user won't give full trust, etc.) I suspect you would be much better off creating a .msi deployment package or something similar that was able to go out and download the framework, if necessary. There are a lot of deployment models available, almost all of which feel superior to this one.
That said, if you're going to do this:
To get the COM object, you're going to want to use the AutomationFactory.CreateObject(...)
API. Tim Heuer provides a sample here.
To actually do the WMI scripting, you're going to want to create the WbemScripting.SWbemLocator
object as the root. From there, use the ConnectServer
method to get a wmi service on the named machine. You can then interrogate the Win32_Process
module to create new processes.
Edit: I spent a little time working on this and, even on my local machine as Admin I'm running into security problems. The correct code would be something similar to:
dynamic locatorService = AutomationFactory.CreateObject("WbemScripting.SWbemLocator");
dynamic wmiService = locatorService.ConnectServer("winmgmts:{impersonationLevel=impersonate,authentationLevel=Pkt}//./root/cimv2");
dynamic process = wmiService.Get("Win32_Process");
dynamic createParameters = process.Methods_["Create"].InParameters.SpawnInstance_;
createParameters.CommandLine = "cmd.exe";
wmiService.ExecMethod("Win32_Process", "Create", createParameters);