Re: Sending a switch to a form

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From: Christopher Kimbell (c_kimbell_at_online.nospam)
Date: 07/14/04 

Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2004 21:27:49 +0200

Use the Environment.GetCommandLineArgs() to get a string array of command
line arguments. You can then process this and do whatever you want.

Chris

"Adlai Stevenson" <mstowel@boy.towel.spam> wrote in message
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>
> For a Windows Form app, that consumes a web service.
>
> I want the option of being able to run this as a scheduled job in a
> batch mode.
>
> The app ( which I call XMailMan) form has two controls, a
> FileOpenDialog and a submit button.
>
> When you press submit, the FileOpenDialog appears, you select an Xml
> file. It is then parsed in an XmlReader and loaded into an
> XmlDocument. Then it is passed into a web method that takes an
> XmlDocument as a parameter.
>
> Now, I want to have the option of running it in a batch mode where I say.
>
> XMailMan.exe /f:<filename>
>
> and it automatically processes the file and then shuts down.
>

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