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Hi All,

I have a requirement to run a command from the batch processing, since we do not have shellExecute command in server winapi class, I am calling the shell execute method in server method of my batch class but it is throwing an error that CIL cannot run on client. could anyone know how to run the command in batch processing.

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Brandon Wiese 17,788 on at

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Have you tried adding the shellExecute to WinAPIServer with the appropriate InteropPermissions?

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Hi,

Probably this blog post might help you: "How to execute an external process from a batch" ?

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thanks for you reply, is it good to change the standard method?

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Hi Oleg, thanks for your response, i tried this code but this is not working if i run from batch process.

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Hi,

I would't recommend changing standard method. I think it's better to create a new class with static server method for this call.

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Martin Dráb 237,920 Most Valuable Professional on at

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MuthukumaranAX, unfortunately we can't help you if you don't tell us anything more than "this is not working".

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MuthukumaranAX 2,903 on at

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Martin, I did the following things on this issue

1. created a new class which extends winapiserver and added shellExecute method with server static, while running this code as batch I am getting run-time errors

i) server cannot execute the client code.

ii) the function 'ShellExecuteExW' has caused an error

2. I have the code from the url (ax4dev.wordpress.com/2012/07/20/shell-execute-on-batch-server-2/) and tried to run as batch job, I did not get any errors but no files are getting copied to the local system

pls let me know what am i missing or how can i do this

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Consider carefully the security context under which any external process runs. If your AOS is setup as a domain account, then that is straight forward. If, on the other hand, your AOS is running under Network Service, then access to off-machine resources occurs under the SERVERNAME$ domain computer account, which must be granted access to those resources.

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Martin Dráb 237,920 Most Valuable Professional on at

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You mustn't use any client code; that's the main bug that you have to fix. I don't know your code so I can't tell you where exactly you have client-bound code.

Also, don't extend WinAPIServer class. It has no advantage, because there are no instance methods to inherit.

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MuthukumaranAX 2,903 on at

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Hi Martin,

below is the code which i am using as a batch processing for copying the files.

can you tell me am i missing some thing on the below code.

#WinAPI

System.Diagnostics.Process process;

System.Diagnostics.ProcessStartInfo processStartInfo;

;

new InteropPermission(InteropKind::ClrInterop).assert();

process = new System.Diagnostics.Process();

processStartInfo = new System.Diagnostics.ProcessStartInfo();

processStartInfo.set_FileName(@"C:\WINDOWS\System32\ftp.exe");

processStartInfo.set_Arguments(_fileName);

processStartInfo.set_WorkingDirectory(_localFolder);

process.set_StartInfo(processStartInfo);

process.Start();

//process.WaitForExit();

process.Close();

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