Defining a firewall using C# and CMD

Question

I am a new guy in C# development and I am looking for a App to define a firewall rule... I searched nearly everywhere and found some code using NetFwMgr but it didn't work and I don't know why!? but I knew the cmd code for it, so I started to use the Process way in visual studio 2019.

the code line in cmd works fine and returns the word "OK." but I cant do it in C#

if anyone can help me understand the concept of it, I would be appreciate it.

here is the code snippet of what I have done:

 try
{
   string str = "netsh advfirewall firewall add rule name="+"\"Port for SQL\""+" dir=in action=allow 
                 protocol=TCP localport=1433";
   ProcessStartInfo psi = new ProcessStartInfo();
   Process process = new Process();

   psi.FileName = "cmd.exe";
   psi.WindowStyle = ProcessWindowStyle.Normal;
   psi.Verb = "runas";
   psi.Arguments = str;

   process.StartInfo = psi;
   process.Start();
   process.WaitForExit(1000);
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
     MessageBox.Show(ex.Message, "Error", MessageBoxButtons.OK, MessageBoxIcon.Error);
}

the thing it does nothing. it simply waits for 1 second and nothing happens. it doesn't even catches any errors. Please Help

UPDATE : I even ran the exe file as administrator and nothing happens... I also gave the application manifest admin access:

<requestedExecutionLevel level="requireAdministrator" uiAccess="false" />

still no good

Answer 1

You are calling cmd.exe and not netsh. The string you are passing as argument is not extecuted in the newly created console, you'd need to run cmd /c ... for that.

Just use netsh as your psi.Filename and advfirewall ... as your argument

string str = "advfirewall firewall add rule name=" + "\"Port for SQL\"" + " dir=in action=allow protocol=TCP localport=63000";
ProcessStartInfo psi = new ProcessStartInfo();
Process process = new Process();

psi.FileName = "netsh";
psi.WindowStyle = ProcessWindowStyle.Normal;
psi.Arguments = str;

process.StartInfo = psi;
process.Start();

process.WaitForExit();