Accept Parameters in your application

[Timothy Taylor]

Hello, the following code works for VB.NET for the desktop, however it gives
me an error when i run it on the compact framework. What's the problem? Do
i have to to it differently?

Try

Dim CmdLineArgument As String

Dim separators As String = "^"

Dim commands As String = Command()

Dim args() As String = commands.Split(separators.ToCharArray)

CmdLineArgument = args(0)

MsgBox(args(0))

Catch ex As Exception

MsgBox("No Arguments")

End Try

 

[Alex Feinman [MVP]]

Simply redefine the Main sub to accept args() as String:

Sub Main(args() as String)
End Sub

 

[Timothy Taylor]

that's AWESOME! It works!

Just one question though...

It separates the parameters given to it by spaces. What if I want spaces?
How do I tell it to separate them by a "^" Character instead?

For example right now if i give the program the parameter of "Hello What's
up?" then...

args(0) has the value of "Hello"
args(1) has the value of "What's"
args(2) has the value of "up?"

I want to be able to tell it to do that for example, to do the same thing i
would have to pass it "Hello^What's^up?" otherwise it keeps it all in one
parameter of

args(0) having the value of "Hello What's up" you know?

Thanks a lot,

-Tim

 

[Alex Feinman [MVP]]

OS parses parameters in the same way as desktop version of Windows. If some
of your parameters include spaces or some special symbols, surrond them in
quotes.

myApp Hello "What's up?"

 

[Timothy Taylor]

Quotes eh? It works great! Thanks a lot!

-Tim