System Process and returning a value to a form

Below is a sample of a class I am trying to get to work. I would like to start a system process(ipconfig) and return the results.Imports System

Public Class Machine
    Dim myProcess As New System.Diagnostics.Process()

    Function IPConfig() As String
        Dim myConfig As String

        myProcess.StartInfo.RedirectStandardOutput = True
        myProcess.StartInfo.UseShellExecute = True
        myProcess.StartInfo.FileName = "ipconfig.exe"
        myProcess.StartInfo.Arguments = "/all"
        myConfig = myProcess.StandardOutput.ReadToEnd

        Return myConfig
    End Function

End ClassHowever, I keep getting this error:

<color="darkred">System.InvalidOperationException: StandardOut has not been redirected. at System.Diagnostics.Process.get_StandardOutput() at Machine.MacAddress(String ipAddress)</color>

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System Process and returning a value to a form

Lordnikon981
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Ramesh Jha
Found my answer: <a href="http://www.csharphelp.com/archives/archive210.html">http://www.csharphelp.com/archives/archive210.html</a>
Fahad Mukhtar
It works fine on a Windows 2000 server but not on an XP Pro machine. Does anyone have any clue how to fix it on the XP machine
System Process and returning a value to a form

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