Question

I have a windows forms based application made by another programmer and I need to add a few command line switches to it’s primary output exe so that I can pass arguments like:

program.exe -reinitialise or program.exe -sync

I have found some docs online but all seem to be in C# and are for command line only programs.

This program installs via an .msi and the .exe is only constructed at the end.

So my questions are:

1. How do I add command line switches to a VB.Net application?

2. Where/What form do I add the parser to so that the primary output .exe accepts the args?

Answer 1

Similar to C/C#, you get them as an array. Different from C/C#, you obtain them as a read-only property from the application itself (My.Application.CommandlineArgs)

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/z2d603cy(v=vs.80).aspx#Y550

Code sample on that page (for VB) should show you what you need i think…