Running-EXE-through-web-services

Question

Hi all

I'm trying to call a windows Console application in my Web Service. If I'm running it as a local service i.e in the same solution it works perfectly but if i try to call it through my Web Service hosted as IIS localServer it doesn't call it. i think it's security problem. I'm new to web service and I'm calling the application using

           Process.Start() funtion...

And one more thing if it's Windows Service it works great....

Any Idea???

Answer 1

does the IUSR_* user account have permission to execute the console application?

Answer 2

Hi, treat your console as a separate project. Make sure that works first.

I've done what you've described in an asp.net web app. I've tested it; the same code works fine in a web service. The trick here is the "startInfo.UseShellExecute = False"

In the example, parameters are being passed to the console app which is executed at runtime. (sorry its in VB).

Dim startInfo As System.Diagnostics.ProcessStartInfo Dim pStart As New System.Diagnostics.Process

startInfo = New System.Diagnostics.ProcessStartInfo("C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\KPIMi\Annotation Editor\Annotation_Console.exe") startInfo.Arguments = strServerName & "-" & strPrimaryKey & "-" & txtStart.Text startInfo.UseShellExecute = False

pStart.StartInfo = startInfo pStart.Start()

pStart.WaitForExit() 'Your code will halt until the exe file has executed.

Hope this helps.