I'm currently making a text editor, and I wanted to make my application accept arguments from the command prompt, you know <Directory>myapp.exe <textfile>. How can I do this?
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I have a VB.NET application that takes command-line arguments. It works fine when debugging provided I turn off Visual Studio's ClickOnce security setting.The problem occurs when I try to install the application on a computer via ClickOnce and try to run it with arguments. I get a crash when that happens (oh noes!).
There is a workaround for this issue: move the files from the latest version's publish folder to a computer's C: drive and remove the ".deploy" from the .exe. Run the application from the C: drive and it will handle arguments just fine.
Command line programs like ffmpeg.exe accept a parameter like so: c:> ffmpeg.exe -i img%03d.png img.gif This will grab all these images in the directory and use them inside the program:
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Is there a clever way to implement this in my VB.net command line project, or do I have to parse the argument for the %0?
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.
View 2 RepliesIs 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.
View 5 RepliesIs there any way to add command line arguments to a vb express Windows form application?
View 9 RepliesI am having a little trouble with my VB.NET program and was wondering if someone could point me in the right direction?I have started a cmd.exe process in my vb.net (2008) program however I would like to execute commands for my process (in the same command prompt window created) on the fly. For example (the commands are irrelevant)... on the click of button 1, I would like to carry out the command "cd C:". Once that has finished I'd like to be able to click button 2 which executes "help". (I do not want the commands to execute when the process starts).[code]
View 14 Replies1. Is their a way that i can capture the command prompt results and place it in a richtextbox?
View 6 RepliesI'm making a program that can take arguments and run cmd line style. I'm trying to think of a good way to sort and check the arguments. I currently split the arguments into an array and use a loop to assign them to variables.[code]That works but would seriously mess up if someone left out anything. I want to know if anyone has any tips on how to parse the incoming arguments. I always like making my scripts idiot proof, cause at times i mess stuff up.
View 13 RepliesI need to give an app 2 string values on startup via the command prompt like this
C:myapp.exe string1 string2
How do I accept these values?
Every time I try and redirect input and output of command prompt I have a problem. The debugger itself crashes! Something must really be wrong. What is a good way to launch CMD and send commands to it, receive output.
View 1 Repliesis there possible to encrypt a command batch (.bat) file so that user can't read the source code?
Or is it possible to embed it in VS 2008 so that user are invisible to the cmd file?
I've done it before, so I'm getting a little frustrated on how to get this to work exactly I need to send some arguments to a command line window and I thought I did it this way:
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Dim p As New Process
p.StartInfo.FileName = "cmd"
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I tried to make a media player by following this guide: [URL]
The problem is that I want to execute the mediaplayer from a batch script and auto-play a .avi like so: C:MediaPlayer.exe filename.avi
But this will only start an emty mediaplayer.
How do I make the MediaPlayer accept the .avi filename?
I have redirected the results of the command prompt to a multi-line textbox and i want to get the line number of the error. [code] how would i get the line numbers? it should get 90,92,95.
View 4 RepliesIn C#, python and/or VB.net, how can write a method of a class that can accept different sequences of arguments? As an indication, the multiple choices of arguments sequence would be accessible when pressing shift+shift+space in visual studio.
View 5 RepliesIn the Windows Shell, there is a command that looks like this: copy /b fileA.zip + fileB.jpg fileC.jpg..Is there any equivalent function in VB.NET? I already know this works: [code] But I would much rather have a built-in function to work with. Here is what I am trying to do: url...Also, this doesn't just work for pictures. It works for any binary file. Is there any way in VB.NET to tell if a file is binary or text?
View 3 RepliesIs there a way to hide the characters of a "set /p password=Enter Password:" command? Or any new strand not using the SET command i could use instead?
View 2 RepliesI'm writing a small application to detect the insertion of USB memory sticks and prompt the user to accept the device or reject it. Rejecting it would prevent its being loaded by Windows. I have the code that detects insertion & removal working fine but have no idea how to cancel the insertion.I was thinking that I could intercept the DEVICEARRIVAL message and kill it off before its actioned by Windows but I am lost with this.code to show the way.Heres the main part of the code I have so far-
Protected Overrides Sub WndProc(ByRef m As System.Windows.Forms.Message)
'This kills off any 'autoplay' capability in the stick
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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?
I need to sort my code to work for Visual Basic 2008 Express Version, I am trying to open the Command Prompt through Visual Basic and make Visual Basic run through the Command Prompt. By this i mean i need Visual Basic to Send Messages from a text box on my design to the command prompt, e.g to make my program go through the command prompt to do the basic hide files in a picture.
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I am not a developer but I like tweaking with system, I am recently trying to create an app that can reset admin password, but the problem is that I am not able to run the following command from standard account.
net user user_name * I know it is because of security reason but there must be some way so that software developer can tweak it, can someone guide me..[URl]..
The question is self-explanatory. It would be great if the code was one line long (something to do with "Process.Start("...")"?). I researched the web but only found old examples and such ones that do not work (at least for me). I want to use this in my class library, to run Git commands
View 1 RepliesBefore posting this question I have carried out a few searches on this forum but I am afraid I am struggling because I am very new to Visual Basic and although I do have some programming background, yesterday was day 1 and I took a web tutorial and watched a few video tutorials. (Long way to go!).
OK to the question and I know I should really not ask 2 but It's better to get them both in one post I think.
I want to build a small utility to run a form in full screen to basically hide an old application running in the background.
My old application is a database (Non VB code) which works very well but while it batch exports a lot of data the software displays some pretty ugly windows, I want to call my VB utility from a command prompt with 1 or more switches to display some meaningful text about where it is in the routine.
I also want to be able to send a switch at the end to close it completly.
Q1 - What is the best way to manage command prompt switches ?
Q2 - How do I make it close itself ?
Windows Command Prompt with VB
View 1 RepliesIn the Windows Shell, there is a command that looks like this:copy /b fileA.zip + fileB.jpg fileC.jpgIs there any equivalent function in VB.NET? I already know this works:Shell("cmd copy /b fileA.zip + fileB.jpg fileC.jpg")
View 5 RepliesI'm starting to make a program that will run some commands, so i need some code that will open command prompt and run the command "netstat -a".
View 11 RepliesI am looking for an easy way to have a command prompt like interface for my form. The idea is to make it an interactive text interface. Here is an example of what it might look like > Hi Hello! > How are you? I am fine! >_So it's very much like a chat. BTW, I am not referring to what the example is, just the concept of a command prompt, that I can create a scrollback buffer for. Very much like a MSDOS prompt.
View 5 RepliesI have this problem where is wont let me create and files through the command prompt via echo xxx> C:xxx in Visual Basic. If I do it sepoaratly and run the command prompt as admin (This is not using vb at all) then it will work. I have tried putting my vb app to require previlidges at both levels at different times, not at once, and I still got the same thing.So is there a way I can use the comman prompt through vb, but also making the command prompt being an admin without turning off UAC?The code that will not work is this.
Shell(Environ$("Comspec") & " /c """ & WDir & "ToolsMediaInfoMediaInfo.exe"" --output=xml """ & WDir & "ToolsMediaInfoMediaInfo.xml""")
This is my first VB program, but how do i make the command prompt stay ?
Option Strict Off
Option Explicit On
Module Module1
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