Using the System.Diagnostics.Process class you can get a stream to read the output of the application you are executing. For example, you could execute "dir" to list get the directory contents of the working directory specified as a string.

Here's a basic class I wrote that allows you to get the standard output:
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Diagnostics;
using System.IO;
using System.Text;

namespace Kahnadex{
    class WindowsHelper{
        public static Exception ShellExecute(string in_WorkingDirectory,string in_FileName,string in_Args,out string out_StdOut){
            Process p = new System.Diagnostics.Process();
            p.StartInfo.WorkingDirectory = in_WorkingDirectory;
            p.StartInfo.FileName = in_FileName;
            p.StartInfo.Verb = "open";
            p.StartInfo.Arguments = in_Args;

            //required to capture standard output
            p.StartInfo.RedirectStandardOutput = true;
            p.StartInfo.UseShellExecute = false;
            p.Start();
            p.WaitForExit();

            //read the command line output
            try{
                StreamReader sr = p.StandardOutput;
                out_StdOut = sr.ReadToEnd();
                return(null);
            }catch(Exception ex){
                out_StdOut = "";
                return(ex);
            }
        }
    }
}


Labels: .NET, C#

#include <sstream>

template <class T>
inline std::string ToString (const T& t){
    std::stringstream ss;
    ss << t;
    return(ss.str());
}

Labels: C++

Unlike SQL Server, you cannot reliably move a MySQL database by moving the binary files in the MySQL directory. Instead, you should use the mysqldump utility.

Open a command line window to the MySQL bin directory and make sure both mysql and mysqldump binaries are both present. On Linux this location is likely /usr/local/mysql/bin and on Windows this is most likely C:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Server 5.0\

Dump the database using a command like this:
./mysqldump --user=user --password=pw database_name_here > db.sql

Then connect using the MySQL command line client and create the database:
./mysql --user=user --password=pw
create database new_database_name
use new_database_name
source db.sql

Labels: MySQL, SQL