Run an External Executable in ASP.NET Core

How to execute an external program by calling an API endpoint.

Changhui Xu
codeburst
Published in
4 min readOct 4, 2019

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Sometimes our application needs to allow users to execute an external program by calling an API endpoint. The external program could be a script, a third-party software, or an executable written in an outdated framework.

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