Question

I’m not entirely sure this is possible.

I have a legacy GUI application written in C#. Using AttachConsole(-1) (from kernel32.dll) I can add a console window if it is called from the command line. I’ve even been able to write a module to run through basic use cases and make it look as if it is a console application. I don’t show the window, and if I do it doesn’t update or work properly (because I didn’t use Application.Run)

However, another person in my team wants to do something similar where input arguments will set off a series of GUI actions (like buttonExample.PerformClick(), update text boxes, etc) to simulate a user. Is it possible to do this using C# entirely or will he have to use something like AutoIt?

We’re using VS2008/.NET Framework v3.5.

Answer 1

You can add string array args to your static void Main() and pass them up to the GUI class to perform such actions.

  static class Program
  {
    /// <summary>
    /// The main entry point for the application.
    /// </summary>
    [STAThread]
    static void Main(string[] args)
    {
      ...
      //TODO: Stuff with your args
    }
  }