c# interactiveProcessRunner

Can someone tell me what the InteractiveProcessRunner is for? Is it identical to Process.Start?

Here is the class.

And here an example :

InteractiveProcessRunner runner =  
                       new InteractiveProcessRunner(notepad.e开发者_Python百科xe,hSessionToken);

THX

Whit this class you can run a process with the complete environment of the user active: if you call this code from a service, you should find the user mapped resources, the desktop and all the resources that are available when the user is loggen on interactively even if launched from a service ie not logged interactively.

The source code to which your link leads referes to this article: http://asprosys.blogspot.com/2009/03/perils-and-pitfalls-of-launching.html which explains the motivation behind it.

Summary: You can't really use Process.Start() when you want to start a new process as certain user from a windows service. The InteractiveProcessRunner lets you do this (supposedly, never used it so I can't verify it). So it's not the same as Process.Start() - it uses a different Windows API.