msg.exe from controller page

Question

User982203039 posted

Is there anyway possible to run a static command line from a controller? I want to send a message using: msg.exe command after a certain post to popup a message on a specific computer. Possible?

Thanks,

EB

Answer 1

User-821857111 posted

 You can't invoke any .exe on a client machine from a web page. Imagine the security implications of that. In any case, any code in the controller will execute on the web server, not the client machine.

Answer 2

User753101303 posted

Hi,

You can use https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.diagnostics.process.start?view=netframework-4.8 to run a server side EXE file (most often it needs permission changes). It is perhaps not that hard and you may find also a C# library doing that directly or you could also use maybe an instant messaging API ?