Re: How to pass and get parameter from command line in VB

From: Pásztor, Zoltán (pasztor_at_ml-cons.hu)
Date: 05/20/04

  • Next message: Phu Van Le: "Re: How to pass and get parameter from command line in VB" 
    Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 18:15:55 +0200

    Look up the Command$ function in the help.

    Also, for general programming questions like this you'd better see the
    microsoft.public.vb.general.discussion ng.
    If you don't mind an advice: before asking, try to google the group archive.
    This question, and great many of others, had been asked there literally
    hundreds of times.

    Here's an initial search string that I use (it is not restricted to that ng
    though):
    http://groups.google.com/advanced_group_search?num=100&as_scoring=d&as_ugroup=*.vb.*&as_eq=dotnet&lr=lang_en&hl=en

    The tricky part is to form the correct search phrase...

    The following prase:
       "parameter passing to .exe"
    entered into the 'with *all* of the words' box (without the quotes) yielded
    more than 500 hits, the top three are the following:

    Re: Passing a Runtime Parameter to a VB6 EXE: How To?
    ... I want to compile a VB6 Application which will allow a user to run the
    EXE with the option of passing it a parameter. How do you do this? ...
    microsoft.public.vb.general.discussion - 19 May 2004 by Tony Proctor - View
    Thread (26 articles)

    Re: Run a file with redirected input
    ... parameter to the INVERSE.EXE program. It's a feature of the command
    interpreter (CMD.EXE),
    so to conclude, you need to execute CMD.EXE (or COMMAND.COM) passing ...
    microsoft.public.vb.winapi - 17 May 2004 by Björn Holmgren - View Thread (5
    articles)

    Re: shellexecute on a file, WITH parameters
    ... the associated exe is found and windows starts the EXE passing the
    filename ... the description
    of the call: lpParameters [in] If the lpFile parameter specifies an ...
    microsoft.public.vb.general.discussion - 3 May 2004 by Bob Butler - View
    Thread (9 articles)

    hth 

    -- 
PZ
Phu Van Le wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just a beginner in VB. I write a simple application in VB and make
> it as an executable .EXE file. When I run it from command line in
> DOS, I need to pass some parameter to it. But I don't know how to
> code in VB to get this parameter. Can someone help? Thanks.
>
> Regards,
>
> Phu
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