ClickOnce Deployed shortcut with cmd params

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  14 years ago

  by dtth555

  Joel Meikle

  New Zealand, New Zealand

  Joined 17 years ago
  Hi All, I am new to the world of click once apps.
  
  I have updated a few existing apps to use .net & the clickonce deployment.
  
  all is working well but now I need to pass a command line parameter to the exe when starting.
  
  I draged the startup shortcut from the program files menu onto the desktop but when I go to edit it there is no target exe or anywhere for me to put command parameters as I have done in the past (e.g. "c:\myprogram.exe" "param_value")
  
  HELP!!!
  
  What do i need to do to be able to launch my app passing a prarmeter? (its an offline app & users run from a desktop shortcut).
  
  Any help is much appreciated,.
  Cheers
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  14 years ago

  by Amjath

  Amjathkhan

  , India

  Joined 15 years ago
  hi
  i think its impossible. its a bug (see this link)
  You won't be able to pass parameters via start menu shortcut. This is not supported.
  
  
  
  http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=264868&SiteID=1
  
  -Amjath
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  14 years ago

  by dtth555

  Joel Meikle

  New Zealand, New Zealand

  Joined 17 years ago
  Thanks for the reply, I had seen that post & was shocked no one has found a work around.
  
  I thought I would post my solution that works for my senario
  
  Senario: when the program starts it prompts the user to select a configuration/database they would like to connect to.
  
  Solution: I ran out of time as users were getting anti so I use AutoIt which works well for this task as I just get the script to select from the known configs. AutoIt has the great feature of being able to comple the script to an exe with no dependencies.
  
  If anyone has any other solutions i would love to hear them
  Nez
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  14 years ago

  by konikula

  Matej Kasper

  Trutnov, Czech Republic

  Joined 15 years ago

  No, I am quite sure it is possible. Firstly at app. level you should use Sub Main(paramarray$()),
  and to .lnk: you should be able to drop arguments over lnk to exe I guess its implicitely ok, you musn't edit that lnk or add some %1 ... it is running well as it is:
  

  lnk.path = 'myapp.exe'
  run lnk 'abc' -> app.started(myapp 'abc')
  

  I guess all should be allright

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