run a C# project from .cmd file

[igurov]

Hi all,
I have a C# for parsing .csv file. It consists of two classes. In the class parser I have a function readInput(string) that reads a txt file which contains the folder locations of the csv files. When I execute the project from the visual studio development everything is fine. But writing the .cmd like this does not return any result.

copy C:\BoxParser\bin\Release\BoxParser.exe C:\temp

c:\temp\BoxParser Parser readInput C:\RecipeParser\RecipeParser\bin\Release\input.txt

del c:\temp\RecipeParser.exe

pause

The problem is that it doesn#t execute the function readInput. Any ideas ?
Thanks in advance.

Oliver

[Plater]

I don't understand what you were trying to do in that line in your cmd file, but if you have a console application that takes a filename as an argument (that filename could then be passed into that function of yours), you could certainly run it from a cmd file.

[igurov]

Hi all,
I have a C# project that compiles without problem under visual studio. Now I want to call a function from this project for reading files from a txt file in an .cmd file. I tried with the following code where Parser is the name of the Project, ParserClass is the name of the class where the function is and readInput is the name of my function , but it does't execute it.


copy C:\Parser\Parser\bin\Release\Parser.exe C:\temp
c:\temp\Parser ParserClass readInput C:\Parser\Parser\bin\Release\input.txt
del c:\temp\RecipeParser.exe
pause

Any help would be appreciated.

[Plater]

I think we went over this before.
EDIT: yes we did, I have merged the threads. Please do not double post as it is against the posting guidelines.
MODERATOR


You cannot just "call" a function defined in a program like that.
You can have your program take arguments in and based on the passed in arguments, perform some operation inside your program.

for instance you could check to see if the first argument was "readinput" and then call the function in code using the 2nd argument passed.

If you are having trouble understanding the arguments, please check in on a basic tutorial for more indepth explanations of how to use them.