Lets say that I have an executable and when it is started I want to know how it’s started. I.e. I would like to know if it is started with a shortcut or directly.
With this:
string test = Environment.GetCommandLineArgs()[0];
I can get the path of the executable, but this is always the same, even if it’s started by a shortcut.
Lets say my executable is named c:\text.exe and I start it directly, then test = ‘c:\test.exe’
If I create a shortcut i.e. c:\shortcut.lnk (with target c:\test.exe) I want test to be ‘c:\shortcut.exe’ but it is ‘c:\test.exe’
I strongly suspect this to be impossible because the OS handles the shortcut part and the executable never can see the difference, but maybe someone has a creative idea?
This won’t work in general, but if you are creating the shortcut, you could add a command line parameter to identify it.