Passing an option to an EXE from an EXE

[Takuya Matsumoto]

Greetings to all,

I really appreciate the support from this community and I've made some
advancements, but again I'm hitting a wall...

I'm trying to write a program in C# that passes an option to another EXE so
that the second program knows what to do.
I belive the syntax is like below, but the problem arises when I add the
option; it does not find the exe file.

System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("c:\program files\program\sample.exe"
/option:"doSomething");

As a test, I tried "Run" option of Windows as below:
"c:\program files\program\sample.exe" /option:"doSomething"
and this works fine.

I'm puzzled as to what the problem is.
What am I doing wrong?

Thanks very much for your help!

Cheers,

Takuya

[Michael A. Covington]

Remember the syntax of strings in C#. I think you want to type this:

System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(
"\"c:\\Program FIles\\Program\\Sample.exe\" /option:\"doSomething\"");

That is, put \ before every \ or " that occurs within a string.
"Takuya Matsumoto" <ad*************************************@sakaecorp .co.jp> wrote in message news:%2******************@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...

Greetings to all,

I really appreciate the support from this community and I've made some
advancements, but again I'm hitting a wall...

I'm trying to write a program in C# that passes an option to another EXE so
that the second program knows what to do.
I belive the syntax is like below, but the problem arises when I add the
option; it does not find the exe file.

System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("c:\program files\program\sample.exe"
/option:"doSomething");

As a test, I tried "Run" option of Windows as below:
"c:\program files\program\sample.exe" /option:"doSomething"
and this works fine.

I'm puzzled as to what the problem is.
What am I doing wrong?

Thanks very much for your help!

Cheers,

Takuya

[Takuya Matsumoto]

> Remember the syntax of strings in C#. I think you want to type this:

System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(
"\"c:\\Program FIles\\Program\\Sample.exe\" /option:\"doSomething\"");

That is, put \ before every \ or " that occurs within a string.

Woops, my typing mistake.
I had actually done so.

Cheers,

Takuya

[Ryan LaNeve]

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"Takuya Matsumoto" <ad*************************************@sakaecorp .co.jp>
wrote in message news:%2******************@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...

Greetings to all,

<snipped>

I'm trying to write a program in C# that passes an option to another EXE so that the second program knows what to do.
I belive the syntax is like below, but the problem arises when I add the
option; it does not find the exe file.

System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("c:\program files\program\sample.exe"
/option:"doSomething");

<snipped>

Cheers,

Takuya

The Process class' "Start" method has an override specifically for supplying
arguments to the executable being started. In your case, the syntax would
be:
System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("C:\\Program Files\\Program\\Sample.exe",
"/option:\"doSomething\"");

Good luck.
--
Ryan LaNeve, MCSD.NET
http://weblogs.asp.net/rlaneve

[Romain TAILLANDIER]

hi,

i think you can also put an @ before your string, then the echap char would
be automatic.
@"c:\program files\program\sample.exe" would work i suppose.

ROM

"Michael A. Covington" <lo**@www.covingtoninnovations.com.for.address> a
ecrit dans le message de news: #X**************@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
Remember the syntax of strings in C#. I think you want to type this:

System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(
"\"c:\\Program FIles\\Program\\Sample.exe\" /option:\"doSomething\"");

That is, put \ before every \ or " that occurs within a string.
"Takuya Matsumoto" <ad*************************************@sakaecorp .co.jp>
wrote in message news:%2******************@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...

Greetings to all,

I really appreciate the support from this community and I've made some
advancements, but again I'm hitting a wall...

I'm trying to write a program in C# that passes an option to another EXE so that the second program knows what to do.
I belive the syntax is like below, but the problem arises when I add the
option; it does not find the exe file.

System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("c:\program files\program\sample.exe"
/option:"doSomething");

As a test, I tried "Run" option of Windows as below:
"c:\program files\program\sample.exe" /option:"doSomething"
and this works fine.

I'm puzzled as to what the problem is.
What am I doing wrong?

Thanks very much for your help!

Cheers,

Takuya

[Phil Swartzell]

I don't have it in front of me, but I was pretty sure that there is an
overload for process.start that allows you to pass a command line argument.
It's not all passed as one string. The overloads second parameter is an
object array if I remember correctly.

Phil

"Takuya Matsumoto" <ad*************************************@sakaecorp .co.jp>
wrote in message news:%2******************@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...

Greetings to all,

I really appreciate the support from this community and I've made some
advancements, but again I'm hitting a wall...

I'm trying to write a program in C# that passes an option to another EXE so that the second program knows what to do.
I belive the syntax is like below, but the problem arises when I add the
option; it does not find the exe file.

System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("c:\program files\program\sample.exe"
/option:"doSomething");

As a test, I tried "Run" option of Windows as below:
"c:\program files\program\sample.exe" /option:"doSomething"
and this works fine.

I'm puzzled as to what the problem is.
What am I doing wrong?

Thanks very much for your help!

Cheers,

Takuya

[Takuya Matsumoto]

Yes, Phil!
It worked perfectly.
Thanks very much for your help!
Cheers,
Takuya
"Phil Swartzell" <ps*********@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:%2****************@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...

I don't have it in front of me, but I was pretty sure that there is an
overload for process.start that allows you to pass a command line argument. It's not all passed as one string. The overloads second parameter is an
object array if I remember correctly.

Phil

"Takuya Matsumoto" <ad*************************************@sakaecorp .co.jp> wrote in message news:%2******************@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...

Greetings to all,

I really appreciate the support from this community and I've made some
advancements, but again I'm hitting a wall...

I'm trying to write a program in C# that passes an option to another EXE

so

that the second program knows what to do.
I belive the syntax is like below, but the problem arises when I add the
option; it does not find the exe file.

System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("c:\program files\program\sample.exe"
/option:"doSomething");

As a test, I tried "Run" option of Windows as below:
"c:\program files\program\sample.exe" /option:"doSomething"
and this works fine.

I'm puzzled as to what the problem is.
What am I doing wrong?

Thanks very much for your help!

Cheers,

Takuya

[Takuya Matsumoto]

Thanks Ryan,

It worked great the way you specified it.
Cheers,

Takuya
"Ryan LaNeve" <ry**@nolanevespam.com> wrote in message
news:uv**************@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...

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"Takuya Matsumoto" <ad*************************************@sakaecorp .co.jp> wrote in message news:%2******************@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...

Greetings to all,

<snipped>

I'm trying to write a program in C# that passes an option to another EXE so

that the second program knows what to do.
I belive the syntax is like below, but the problem arises when I add the
option; it does not find the exe file.

System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("c:\program files\program\sample.exe"
/option:"doSomething");

<snipped>

Cheers,

Takuya

The Process class' "Start" method has an override specifically for

supplying arguments to the executable being started. In your case, the syntax would
be:
System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("C:\\Program Files\\Program\\Sample.exe",
"/option:\"doSomething\"");

Good luck.
--
Ryan LaNeve, MCSD.NET
http://weblogs.asp.net/rlaneve