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Asked: 2026-05-25T06:42:20+00:00

I’m a Silverlight/ASP.NET developer trying to write my first Windows Forms application to run

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I’m a Silverlight/ASP.NET developer trying to write my first Windows Forms application to run in the background on a server, populating our database. Eventually would like this to be a Windows service, but it’s not required initially.

I need to create a batch file to execute 5 instances of this application, passing in the URL to 5 RESTful endpoints. So I published my app, which created a setup.exe. After installing it, I have an item that points to

C:\Users\mi2dev\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Microsoft\, with a .appref-ms file.

I’m not sure at this point what to do. Running:

“C:\Users\mi2dev\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Microsoft\StreamingApp.appref-ms” -“http://www.myURL.com” throws up a command window briefly, but the app doesn’t run, data doesn’t populate in DB.

What am I missing here?

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  1. Editorial Team

    since your application is in .exe format. And make your winform accepts command line arguments (check the main method) also make your Form ctor accepts params too. Then just launch it via cmd line just as you would other command, but here only to navigate to that dir where file exists.

    In case of batch, use start command followed by program name and then arguments

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