CommandLine Arguments - Executable Path Of Application
Jan 27, 2010
I have an application that has file extensions associated with it. The application has been deployed using ClickOnce. I have checked the associations table to confirm the entry is there and the association is to the 'ClickOnce Application Deployment Support Library'. When the application is triggered using a file with my extension, it does not pass the filename / directory in the CommandLine Arguments, instead you get the executable path of the application.
Which is under ..LocalSettingsApp"Random Strings"MyApp.exe
I have checked the Registry entry to confirm what the extension is set to open with and the application is dfshim.dll. Is there a way to overcome this, or is this just another limitation of ClickOnce deployment?
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Dec 26, 2005
I have commandline strings that contains application paths and might contain arguments. Some examples:
1. "C:Program FilesMicrosoft Officewinword.exe" "C:some dirdocumentname.doc"2. "C:Program FilesSome Dirapp.exe" /dosomething3. C:Program FilesSome Dirsomefile.exe4. C:somedirsomefile.exe /whatever5. C:Windows
otepad.exe6. someapp.exe
I'm looking for a simple way to split the path to the application and the optional argument.Sometimes the string contains quotes around the path (1&2) and sometimes, even when the path contains spaces, the string does not contain quotes(3). And sometimes the string does not contain spaces in the path (4&5&6), but a space is used before the argument(4). And (6) is a executable without a path. I have to use the environmentvariables the find the fullpath of the executable. This string (6) can also have arguments.Is there a standard function available to do this split?
Note:I have a regex pattern to handle (1,2,4,5,6), but is doesn't work for (3), because of the spaces in the path."[ ]+(?=(?:[^""]*""[^""]*"")*(?![^""]*""))"I cannot control the strings. Some of them come from user input and some of them come from the registry.
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May 5, 2009
I am trying to use the Command Line Arguments during the Form_Load event to load the file a user might have selected in windows explorer.
I have set some file associations during setup, so that any ".script" files will be associated with my application. However, my application can also open other (text based) files (it's a text editor), and I would like the user to be able to use "Open With..." and select my application to open the files in my application directly.
I have to use the Command line arguments for this, which will hold the filename(s) of the selected files, correct?
So I did this:
vb.net
For Each arg As String In Environment.GetCommandLineArgs()
If IO.File.Exists(arg) Then
OpenFile(arg)
End If
Next
Now, when I open a ".script" file, my application opens and the correct file is loaded. However, in addition, the EXE file is also loaded for some reason! It has opened two files, <Applicationname>.EXE and the file I wanted to open. Because the EXE file is obviously not just a text file, it just displays some random characters, but I don't want it to open that of course...
Also, if I run the application in the debugger (visual studio), it opens the <ApplicationName>.vshost.exe file... So I thought, I can check for the extension of the argument, and only open it if it is a ".script" file. BUT I don't want that! I also want the user to be able to select any file and choose Open With... and select my application. That won't work if I check for the file extension...
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Sep 16, 2011
I have a vb2008 .net2 app that needs to launch an executable with certain cmd arguments. Lets say for example I have 5 variables.
variable1 = true
variable2 = wirelessssid
variable3 = password
variable4 = nothing
variable 5 = username
Each variable represents a cmd args that I need to launch the executable from my app with.
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Oct 22, 2009
I want one of my applications to send an HTML email message to a user with a hyper link in it to start up an executable with arguments passed to it. It works fine if I just specify the executable path with no arguments. But if I pass the arguments then Outlook says it can't find the file. Here is the line that I add to the email message body to start the exe only:
[Code]...
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Jul 29, 2009
I am attempting to make a VB commandline application, I did originally write this as a form application. Our server administrator wants this as a commandline application, so I have done the following code:
Imports Microsoft.Office.Interop
Module Module1
Sub Main()
[code].....
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Nov 10, 2011
I want to exit my GUI application (vb.net 4) using a commandline parameter.I should send thive! from the commandline:
myapplication.exe quit and an already running instance of the application should exit.
Now, I have a mutex detection in place so that I can only have one instance of the application running at a time. It seems that if I send a commandline, it won't work on an already running application; it will only work on one that is launching.
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Jul 21, 2010
Does any one know how can I get the active window's executable path ? Is there any specific API function for that ?
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Jun 24, 2011
I am trying to update an application that was developed a couple of months ago on VB of Visual Studio 2005. The "Build output path:" for the project is pointing to a folder in which I collected a few executables related to my activity, BinDir/. It is just next to the project's folder ProjName/ on my disk. Contrary to the past, when I build my project now, the .exe is created in the ProjName/obj/Debug folder, instead of being directed to the BinDir/Debug folder. In the IDE's Output tab (while building), the path of the generated executable appears correctly, but in reality it is located somewhere else. I tried again and now it seems like the executable is created in both places. The obj/ version is just redundant now.
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Jul 30, 2010
I have created a custom control using VB.NET in Visual Studio 2008 that gives extensive mapping and tracking functionality to a search and rescue app. The problem I am having is that in a number of places I need to define the path to the main applications executable in order to find a number of directories the control needs to function properly. Everything works fine when I am using it in VS but when I try to embed the control in a form in a separate solution I get the following error:
Failed to create component
'MainControl'. The error message
follows:
[Cod]....
This seems to indicate that it is looking for the GISDataDefault directory in the Visual Studio program path but I have used Application.StartupPath to define this location throughout the control.
This error only occurs when attempting to embed the control in a form outside of the controls solution. The solution I have created to develop this control has two projects (one for the control and one for a test form to do the debuging)
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Aug 27, 2011
It's probably the most basic of things, but all I can find is how to launch a program, and not with the interactions I desire. Any tips as to the terms to use to search for answers, or links to topics regarding questions similar to mine, would be very appreciated. I have a wealth of info to read through, but I could use your knowledge to save myself time.Here is what I am trying to do:
Use a Button (A) to Launch a Prompt where User Selects Directory Path to an executable Program. The Selection is to be Persistent after the initial selection (saved in a settings file i assume?), and the Selected Path (or just "programname.exe") is to be Displayed in a Text Field (B). Launch Selected and Indicated Program via a Launch Button (C)
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Nov 25, 2009
I have one project and in this project I want to save picture to application path and save the path to database as string and retrieve the image from the application path.Can u give me some idea about it..i am using vb.net as frontend and ms access database
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Apr 7, 2010
I need to get the path (not the executable) where my application is running from:System.AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory()
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Jun 26, 2010
How can I find the location of my application's executable in WPF (C# or VB.Net)?
I've used this code with windows forms:
Application.ExecutablePath.ToString();
But with WPF I received this error from Visual Studio:
System.Window.Application does not contain a definition for ExecutablePath.
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Dec 2, 2008
I have an VB executable application(.exe) and I would like to get back sourcecode for my .exe application. Please help me if you have any software to get back source code from VB exe program.
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Jul 19, 2010
I am trying to set up an application process to run an executable, which I include in the project's installation directory, and pass it the necessary parameters; however, I am running into issues as it doesn't appear to be doing anything at all.
Here is what I have:
I define the Process As
Private WithEvents conversionProc As New System.Diagnostics.Process
Then I setup the arugments and the process start info as follows:
Dim ogrDirectory As String
[Code].....
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Jun 9, 2012
I would like to make a vb console application that takes parameters. Particularly, I would like it to save each specifc parameter as string.
For Example:
C:> myexe.exe -t text1 -s text2
I would like text1 to be assigned to a string "type" and text2 to a string "speed".
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May 17, 2012
I have a program that outputs a file. I want the user to be able to just double-click the output file and launch the program, just like Word and Excel. In Word for instance, one doesn't necessarily have to open WORD then click on File--> Open and locate another Word doc. He can just go to the folder and open the Word doc. I want to implement the exact scenario in my program.
So far I have tried creating TextFile and added it to the Resources. On FormLoading, I simply I stream-read the Resouce file, but I can't write to the Resource on FormClosing, since the Resource is ReadOnly. Also, the Resource is built & compiled so I suppose you can't add anything to it at run time.How you lunch an output file without launching the Executable program that created it?
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Jun 1, 2009
I have an executable that I was able to get working on all XP machines by registering all the .dll's associated with it.On Vista, however, I go through the exact same registration process but right when I open the executable it goes to a "WindowsApplication1 has stopped working" dialog. I registered the DLLs in the SysWOW64 folder. I also ran Dependency Walker which came up with IEFrame.dll as flagged, don't know if that is relevant though.
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Jul 11, 2011
I have finish writing my codes for a project in VB, I now need to convert to an executable application that I can install on another machine.
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Jul 26, 2011
Just trying to insert data from my application to web DB, but client starts lagging when inserting stared..I need each second insert data.
[code]...
code inserting data to web, but when it's lagging inpossible to do something..how to fix lagging?
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Jul 13, 2010
It appears that the executable application I created can only be run on a computer with .net 4. How can I compile/create the executable to run on a computer with .net 2?
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Nov 24, 2011
If i have a file ( appres.exe ) in the resources of my VB 2008 Application (myVbApp.exe), how can I start from there? I don't want to save it (appres.exe) somewhere else before start, i want only myVbApp.exe, no more files.
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Nov 3, 2009
I'm wanting to pass arguments to my application, I believe there is an property called arguments in the ProcessStartInfo class, however how does my application interpret them?
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Nov 3, 2009
How would I run an executable with arguments like you can add to a shortcut? Such as:
"C:Program Files (x86)Steamsteamappscommonarma 2arma2.exe" -window
I want to create a program where I can select these arguments from a list, press a button, and away you go, without having to type them yourself.
Is there any way other than creating a shortcut and then running it?
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Feb 6, 2008
I've built an app that uses the Groupwise (email client) API. It will perform as expected when I hit F5,everything is good, when I use ctrl+F5 it fails with an access violation (see below). I tried to used JIT debugging, but I never get to see the source code, just the assembly. The app *never* fails with this error when run in the IDE.Groupwise documentation is sparse.[code]...
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Jan 9, 2012
I am having trouble getting the path of my application's executable file at runtime. This application is being started by another executable and whenever I try to use Application.ExecutablePath I get the path to that application instead of mine.
[code]...
Neither of these give me the path of the program in which those two lines are exectured, they only tell what program started this program.
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May 31, 2012
I was asked to build a winform exe that receives arguments from a web service and decide in which mode the application should start.what is the best way to design and build the application?The application needs to receive 3 arguments.
User name. - stringApplication mode - Boolean (user read write privileges)List on string.
Where do I receive this arguments in the new method ?
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Jun 2, 2011
Any way to add command line arguments to my application so that if someone wants to modify the settings they could run myexe.exe /settings and get the settings form of my application.
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Jan 27, 2010
Is it possible to restart a VB.NET application, but with different command line arguments than it originally had? Here is the challenge. I want to write a single instance application. If the second instance has the same CL args as the first, then the built-in behavior is fine (second instance never opens, e.BringToForeground=True brings 1st instance to foreground, everything is great). But if the second instance has different CL args, then I would like the first instance to close and the second instance to start. However, once you mark a VB.NET app as "single instance only", it appears that you can never get the second instance. I think: OK, fine, I can just restart my first instance from the StartupNextInstance event. But how do I use the new command line arguments from the second instance? The Restart() method does not take CL args that I can see.
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