Initiating a Server Side Console Application through a Web App

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I'm using wkhtmltopdf to convert a web page to pdf. Right now I am using a scheduled task to execute the console application, but I would like to be able to run it on demand. Is there a way in .Net to run a console app through the web app. I don't need to interact with it, just initialize it.

Posted 27-Jan-12 5:38am

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Jyothikarthik_N · Answer 1 · 2012-01-27T05:55:00

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Try System.Diagnostics.Process.Start()

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Posted 27-Jan-12 5:55am

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Nunnenkamp 27-Jan-12 15:23pm

Definitely along the lines of what I'm looking for, however it appears that the Process Method only accepts an absolute path. The site is hosted on a virtual drive and I cannot seem to point to the right directory i.e. scorecard.domain.com/appdir/ or \\domainiis\Sites\Scorecard\appdir\.

Any suggestions?