Send commands to Apps

[Codehammer]

I want to make an App, for example will do a event like make the form transparent, but do so with command line parameters passed to it.


How & where does one Define it. Like some command line programs take -x, -w parameters. How can I Make c:\bin\er.exe -con mean that the program if alreay running will then make the form transparent. This isnt about making the form transparent, just to give an Example of what I mean

[wild_bill]

Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
        'Allows program to be executed via command line, given a filename as an argument
        Dim sArgs() As String = GetCommandLineArgs()
        If Not sArgs(0) = Nothing Then
            If File.Exists(sArgs(0)) Then
                Remove_Garbage(sArgs(0))
            End If
            Application.Exit()
        End If
    End Sub
    Function GetCommandLineArgs() As String()
        Dim separators As String = " "
        Dim commands As String = Microsoft.VisualBasic.Command()
        Dim args() As String = commands.Split(separators.ToCharArray)
 
        Return args
    End Function

[Codehammer]

wild_bill,

How does one define a specific argument. EG. -kill means application.exit, for example, where is that done.

Could you please Include an Example.

Thanks you.

[Edneeis]

You just write code in your application to handle whatever data is in the Command Line arguments. The bigger problem you are going to have is that the application will only get these upon start up. So if you try to send commands to an application after it is running then it will spawn a new instance. You have to make a way to pass the command line from the new instance to the already running one.

Try this it does pretty much exactly that:
http://www.edneeis.com/example.aspx?ID=17

[Codehammer]

Busy checking this out Now

http://www.edneeis.com/example.aspx?ID=17

Thanks