Reading an argument given to the program when started

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31 Mar 2006 11:31 AM

Joris De Groote

Hi

I am busy trying to create a VB.NET program. I want to give the program an
argument in the shortcut I created for that program (for example:
program.exe argument).
Now I just can't find how I can read that argument in my VB.NET program.

Can anyone help me?

Thanks
Joris

31 Mar 2006 3:18 PM

Claes Bergefall

Try Environment.GetCommandLineArgs or Environment.CommandLine

/claes

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"Joris De Groote" <joris.degro***@skynet.be> wrote in message
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> Hi
>
> I am busy trying to create a VB.NET program. I want to give the program an
> argument in the shortcut I created for that program (for example:
> program.exe argument).
> Now I just can't find how I can read that argument in my VB.NET program.
>
> Can anyone help me?
>
> Thanks
> Joris
>

31 Mar 2006 3:23 PM

AlanT

public class MyProgram

public shared Sub Main(args() as string)

   'args contains an array of strings representing the command line

   dim mainForm as new MyForm(args)

   Application.Run(mainForm)

end

hth,
Alan