On 2003-12-21, Shane Story <Th*******@TAKEOUTTHISSPAMBUSTERsofthome.net> wrote:
Have an app and would like to allow easy addition of MYAPP.EXE /F /P (for
example)
my prog with command line args, as a job to be run.
Would like to make it easier on the user to run the app. I want to have it
run automatically as specified by the user.
What is the best thing to do and what platforms would it limit me to?
Should I just try to launch MMTask.exe? And maybe make a wizard to generate
the correct command line to copy and paste into the scheduler, or should I
make my own interface and add the task?
What suggestions do you have?
I have notice the servicecontroller for interacting with a task but after
connecting I don't know how you would interface with it and haven't seen
much docs.
Thanks,
shane
The task scheduler works on all systems with IE4 up. It exposes itself
as a set of COM interfaces. You can access this through COM interop. I
have coded all the interop definitions a while ago in C#. Here is kind
of what your in for:
using System;
using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
namespace FireAnt.Util.SchedulingAgent
{
[Guid("148BD527-A2AB-11CE-B11F-00AA00530503"),
InterfaceType(ComInterfactType.InterfactIsIUnknown )]
internal interface ITaskScheduler
{
void SetTargetComputer
([MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.LPWStr)]string pwszComputer);
[return: MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.LPWStr)]
string GetTargetComputer();
IEnumWorkItems Enum();
[return: MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.IUnknown)]
object Activate(
[MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.LPWStr)]
string pwszName,
ref Guid riid);
// rest of the method declarations...
}
// the com coclass...
[ComImport, Guid("148BD52A-A2AB-11CE-B11F-00AA00530503")]
internal class CTaskScheduler
{
}
}
Then you can use them latter...
public static void Main()
{
// get a reference to the task scheduler interface..
ITaskScheduler taskScheduler = new CTaskScheduler();
Console.WriteLine(taskScheduler.GetTargetComputer( ));
}
Anyway, I can give you the interop defintions if you would like...
Sorry for the C# code - but that's what I wrote this stuff in. I
started to do it in VB.NET originally - but there was a bug in the
VB.NET compiler at the time that made impossilbe...
--
Tom Shelton
MVP [Visual Basic]
