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Back in the VB6 days I could launch my application from a command line and pass along some arguments - I can't seem to get that to work in 2013 when setup as a windows forms application. Is it possible to do that anymore? I ask because if it is I don't really want to change the application (mostly because i'm not sure how at this point) to a console app. Plus, I need to be able to launch from both the console and the EXE file.
10 different ways to skin a cat and amazingly enough each and every one has the same result, the cat gets skinned! The same can be applied to code, so be nice and accept each others "preferences".
May 19th, 2015, 04:24 PM #2
Frenzied Member Join Date Mar 2001 Location Chicago Posts 1,519
Dim Args() As String Args = Environment.GetCommandLineArgs
10 different ways to skin a cat and amazingly enough each and every one has the same result, the cat gets skinned! The same can be applied to code, so be nice and accept each others "preferences".
May 19th, 2015, 05:21 PM #3
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Originally Posted by RudyL 
. I don't really want to change the application (mostly because i'm not sure how at this point) to a console app.
Yeah, I wouldn't turn a form's application into a console application, although a console application is much easier to do in .Net then it was in VB6.
A couple of my first few programs I tried out in .Net were console application ports of QBASIC console applications, which I did just because .Net supported console applications. Translating the console application from QBASIC to .Net was an entertaining way to learn how to do a .Net console project.
Of course, I had already done a VB6 form version, that emulated the look and feel of the program running in a console window, for both programs many years ago.
The QBASIC version of a perpetual calendar program I wrote, and the Console Version (done in VB.Net 2005 originally) can be found in this post, if you're curious.
