Question

Is there a way to pass a string argument to a process which is spawned from my own process.

I have in my main application:

Process.Start(Path.Combine(Application.StartupPath, "wow.exe");

wow.exe is another app I created. I need to pass argument to this exe (a string). How can I achieve this typically?

What I tried:

 ProcessStartInfo i = new //........
 i.Argument = "cool string";
 i. FileName = Path.Combine(Application.StartupPath, "wow.exe");
 Process.Start(i);

And in the main of wow application i wrote:

static void Main()
{
    //print Process.GetCurrentProcess().StartInfo.Argument;
}

But I never get my string there in second application’s Main. Here is a question which asks why, but no how to solve it..

Edit: Environment.GetCommandLineArgs()[1], it has to be. Nevertheless, got it working. Accepted @Bali’s answer as he cameup first with this answer. Thanks all

Answer 1

To get the arguments passed you can either use the string[] args in your Main, or you can use Environment.GetCommandLineArgs.

Example:

Console.WriteLine(args[0]);

or

Console.WriteLine(Environment.GetCommandLineArgs[0]);