Get how my ConsoleApp is started

[ChelseaHansa]

Hello I have an Console application wroten in C#. Now I like to know how (from where) the application has startet. I have already classes that can show windowsform and/or interact as an service.

So IF CheckStartMethod will work so that I know if I have start my App from windows, command prompt or as an service, everything will work.
Have anyone any idea how to get this information ? Please.
Lets say that i forse CheckStartMethode to return any string (cmd, win or service), everything work as well. But I can't figure how to know from where the application as been started....

 
[STAThread]
static int Main(string[] args)
{
   startmethod = CheckStartMethod();
 
   if (startmethod == "cmd")
   {
     Scan scan = new Scan();
     scan.Run();
   }
 
   if (startmethod == "win")
   {
     ShowWindowsForm();
   }
 
   if (startmethod == "service")
   {
      ServiceBase[] ServicesToRun;
      ServicesToRun = new ServiceBase[] { new MainService() };
      ServiceBase.Run(ServicesToRun);
   }
 
   return 0;
}

[Plater]

Do you mean the working directory?
Directory.GetCurrentDirectory()

[Curtis Rutland]

I think that he wants to know how his app was started...by a service, through cmd.exe, or double clicking, am I right?

I think you might have to pass arguments to your program and get them from args[].

[Plater]

Ohhhh.
You might be able to find the "parent process id" of your program, which might be of some help?

[ChelseaHansa]

I think that he wants to know how his app was started...by a service, through cmd.exe, or double clicking, am I right?

I think you might have to pass arguments to your program and get them from args[].

You right. But I will not use any arguments. I so, I only know which arguments I get, not how the program was started.

I have already get help. Thanks every one!