Command line argument / published app

[stroyer74]

I have a VB.NET app that makes a lot of use of the GetCommandLineArgs function. With a published application, I don't see anyway to start a published application without using the installed icon, and obviously when starting it from the icon, I cannot pass any command line parameters.

Does anyone have any ideas on how to get around this? Basically I'm looking for a way to execute a published application from a command prompt.


Thanks in advance,
Sheldon

 

[jebenson]

You can put command line parameters in a shortcut. In the shortcut's properties, there is a Target box, which has the path and executable in it. This is essentially the same as typing the path and executable name at a command line prompt. You can add the command line arguments in the Target field, just as you would at the command prompt. The only thing I am not sure about is how to set this up in an installation project, when you set up the shortcuts.


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[stroyer74]

While that is true for a shortcut's properties, if the application is a published application, the icon that gets installed does not have a target box.

My published app is installed from a shared folder, then ever time the app is run, it checks the share for updates, installs updates if needed, then runs the program. It isn't installed to a specific location like a regular installed program does. So therefore there isn't a regular type of shortcut to it.

This is how I understand it anyhow. Maybe my thinking is way off on this.