Catching CMD Pipes? [ RESOLVED ]

[DustinH]

Hey, Im working on a speech program that takes a defined file and reads it. But im trying to keep it from being hardcoded, Ive got it to work with Command Line Args, but Im wanting to create a batch file where I define the file to be read from there. Ive got the CMD line need

type C:\test.txt|Speech.exe

but I cant find a way to have my program open up and recieve the Standard IO. Anyone have any tips?

[ntg]

Play a bit with:

Dim str As System.IO.StreamReader = New System.IO.StreamReader(Console.OpenStandardInput())
Debug.WriteLine(str.ReadToEnd())

You don't need to explicitly open the stream.

[DustinH]

Alrighty, that helped alot man! Finally Got it, Thanks a million!
Here's the code I ended up with just incase someone else hits this problem.

Dim str As System.IO.StreamReader = New System.IO.StreamReader(Console.OpenStandardInput())
        Console.Write(strSpeak)
        strSpeak = str.ReadToEnd()
        txtSpeak.Text = strSpeak
 
        Dim Voice As SpeechLib.SpVoice
        Voice = New SpeechLib.SpVoice
        Voice.Speak(strSpeak, SpeechLib.SpeechVoiceSpeakFlags.SVSFlagsAsync)