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Opening outside application from hololens app
Is it possible to open, run, and utilize text output from an outside program from hololens? If I had my hololens on the same wireless network as a computer, is there a way to run a commandline program on the computer from the hololens?
I was initially writing scripts in Visual Studio using System.Diagnostics to start a new Process, but I keep getting an error when trying to build in Unity-- "The type or namespace name 'Process' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)" I am inside the System.Diagnostics namespace when using the Process code. I don't have any errors in visual studio, only in unity.
Thanks so much!
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I figured out what the issue was. You can't open other processes from inside a Windows Store Application, I think something about a security issue. That's why I wasn't getting errors in VS, but I was in Unity, where I was trying to build as a windows store application.
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In Unity, you just need to wrap that code in a
' #if WINDOWS_UWP '
' #endif '
and then you shouldn't have any issues with Unity, as unity will ignore that code
@Jesse_McCulloch I tried wrapping just the process declaration and instantiation in that, but then the other calls to it couldn't see it. When I wrapped all of the code involving the process, I continued getting the same error
I figured out what the issue was. You can't open other processes from inside a Windows Store Application, I think something about a security issue. That's why I wasn't getting errors in VS, but I was in Unity, where I was trying to build as a windows store application.