To be used in package design and sequence file creation.
Code – Created in Visual Studio Community 2015 – view code
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading; //used by Thread.Sleep
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using System.IO;
using System.Diagnostics; //used by Process
using System.Windows.Forms; //used by MessageBox
using Microsoft.Win32; //used by Registry
namespace PlayingAround
{
class ReadAll
{
public static void Main(string[] args)
{
Console.Out.WriteLine("DISPLAY CONTENTS OF A TEXT FILE");
//creates {contents} variabe
string contents = File.ReadAllText(@"C:\test.txt");
//outputs {contents} to screen
Console.Out.WriteLine("contents = " + contents);
Thread.Sleep(5000); //wait 5 seconds
//will wait for {ENTER} key
//Console.In.ReadLine();
Console.Out.WriteLine("DISPLAY TIMESTAMP");
//creates {DateTime} variable
DateTime dt = DateTime.Now;
//outputs {DataTime} to screen
Console.WriteLine("Current Time is {0} ", dt.ToString());
Console.Out.WriteLine("");
Console.Out.WriteLine("");
Thread.Sleep(5000); //wait 5 seconds
Console.Out.WriteLine("LAUNCH and KILL PROCESS");
//launch cnn website using IE
Process process1 = Process.Start("iexplore.exe", "www.cnn.com");
Thread.Sleep(7000); //wait 7 seconds
foreach (System.Diagnostics.Process IEProc in System.Diagnostics.Process.GetProcesses())
{
if (IEProc.ProcessName == "iexplore")
{
//if IE is found, kill it
IEProc.Kill(); //kill IExplore.exe
}
}
//launch notepad.exe - will stay open
Process process2 = Process.Start("notepad.exe");
//wait for process to close before continuing
process2.WaitForExit();
Thread.Sleep(2000); //wait 2 seconds
//show simple popup message -
//make sure you Add Reference to System.Windows.Forms---under Projects
MessageBox.Show("Program has completed!");
//begin event log creation
string sSource;
string sLog;
string sEvent;
sSource = "My Program";
sLog = "Application";
sEvent = "This is the description";
if (!EventLog.SourceExists(sSource)) EventLog.CreateEventSource(sSource, sLog);
EventLog.WriteEntry(sSource, sEvent);
//EventLog.WriteEntry(sSource, sEvent, EventLogEntryType.Warning, 234);
//end event log
//write to text log
string text = "Text1 " + "Text2";
System.IO.File.WriteAllText(@"C:\log.txt", text);
//set registry key
const string userRoot = "HKEY_CURRENT_USER";
const string subkey = "RegistrySetValueExample";
const string keyName = userRoot + "\\" + subkey;
Registry.SetValue(keyName, "MyKeyName", "A_String_Value_Goes_Here", RegistryValueKind.String);
//get registry key
string regValue = (string)Registry.GetValue(keyName, "MyKeyName","");
//show popup message
MessageBox.Show(regValue);
//delete registry key
string regDelete = @"RegistrySetValueExample";
using (RegistryKey key = Registry.CurrentUser.OpenSubKey(regDelete, true))
{
if (key == null)
{
//does not exist
}
else
{
//does exist
key.DeleteValue("MyKeyName");
}
}
}
}
}
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