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How to run an AX .exe file after it's has been hosted in IIS ?

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Hi All,

I have created one web application. To open AX.exe , I have used the below code ,

Process cmd = new Process();
cmd.StartInfo.Verb = "runas";
string commandToExecute = @"ax32.exe -startupcmd=AOTImport_C:\Table_DM.xpo";
Process.Start(@"cmd", @"/c " + commandToExecute);

This is working fine before hosting this web application.

After Host into IIS it doesn't work.

Please help me to do.

Thanks,

Karthick.M

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André Arnaud de Cal... 300,904 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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Hi Karthick,

What are you trying to achieve here? Note that AX2009 is NOT a web application.

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karthickarden 135 on at

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Hi Andrew,

yes, i understand that AX2009 is not a web application. My requirement is to open the AX Client programatically using C# code. For this i created a new web application and tried the below code:

Process cmd = new Process();

cmd.StartInfo.Verb = "runas";

string commandToExecute = @"ax32.exe -startupcmd=AOTImport_C:\Table_DM.xpo";

Process.Start(@"cmd", @"/c " + commandToExecute);

This is perfectly working when i excecute the above code. But when i host this in IIS, the code is not working.

Do we have any other option to open AX Client programatically but not manually.

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André Arnaud de Cal... 300,904 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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You can try to use the business connector instead, but I wonder if this supports importing of XPO's. You cannot start AX.exe in a web application. AX.exe is a client program.

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Nabil Abdelrahman 1,551 on at

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Make sure you have C:\Table_DM.xpo available on same IIS server as well .

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Vilmos Kintera 46,149 on at

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I do not think what you want is as trivial, since IIS is a server-bound process. After a quick search I found suggestions like this:

forums.asp.net/.../1124574.aspx

You should try other forums that are related to web services, since this is not an AX problem.

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Nabil Abdelrahman 1,551 on at

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This assumes the exe is somewhere you know on the user's computer:

<a href="javascript:LaunchApp()">Launch the executable</a>

<script>

function LaunchApp() {

if (!document.all) {

alert ("Available only with Internet Explorer.");

return;

}

var ws = new ActiveXObject("WScript.Shell");

ws.Exec("C:\\Windows\\notepad.exe"); -- replace with AX.exe on client folder

}

</script>

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karthickarden 135 on at

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Thanks for your valuable answer..

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Nabil Abdelrahman 1,551 on at

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Hi karthickarden

Can you please mark the correct answer as suggested solution ?

Thanks

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