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ProcessStartInfo.Arguments Incomplete Parsing Rules

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Description

### Type of issue

Missing information

### Description

The formatting of command line arguments when populating `ProcessStartInfo.Arguments` is extremely complicated. The current documentation does not describe the full set of parsing rules.

The documentation for [Environment.GetCommandLineArgs](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.environment.getcommandlineargs) does describe the rules more fully (though, still confusingly). I recommend duplicating the description of parsing rules from `Environment.GetCommandLineArgs` on the documentation page for `ProcessStartInfo.Arguments` or, at the very least, linking to them.

For examples of the confusion the parsing rules cause, see:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5510343/escape-command-line-arguments-in-c-sharp
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15365038/how-processstartinfo-argument-consider-arguments

### Page URL

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.diagnostics.processstartinfo.arguments?view=net-8.0&devlangs=csharp&f1url=%3FappId%3DDev17IDEF1%26l%3DEN-US%26k%3Dk(System.Diagnostics.ProcessStartInfo.Arguments)%3Bk(DevLang-csharp)%26rd%3Dtrue

### Content source URL

https://github.com/dotnet/dotnet-api-docs/blob/main/xml/System.Diagnostics/ProcessStartInfo.xml

### Document Version Independent Id

a5723e00-a422-7766-5f8e-d7d4986add0a

### Article author

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