Accessing Add Scheduled Task Wizard

[John Bowman]

Hi,

I have a C# app that needs to launch the "Add Scheduled Tasks" wizard found
in the control panel "Scheduled Tasks" applet. I realize that this "applet"
really just opens the tasks folder, but I need to launch the add tasks
wizard inside the folder. Does anyone have any ideas of how to do this? I
can't find anything in the MSDN regarding this. All it mentions is the Task
Scheduler API and I can't seem to find it in there either. Did I miss
something? If it's in there, what reference(s) do I need to set to gain
access to it's interfaces in my C# code?

Thanks,

 

[Gagik A.]

As far as I know there is no built-in support for this in .NET.
Here is a link to an article with source code for an alternative solution.
http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/TSNewLib.asp

HTH
Gagik A

 

[John Bowman]

Gagik,

Thanks for the link, I'll pull down the info & see where it takes me.
However, there must be some mechanism to launch the "Add Scheduled Task"
wizard, since from within the Scheduled Tasks folder, you can double click
it and some code somewhere gets executed that launches the wizard.

John

 

[Gagik A.]

John,

you may want to have a look at the RunDLL/RunDLL32 interface, as described
in
http://support.microsoft.com:80/support/kb/articles/q164/7/87.asp

I know you can call some control panel applets by shelling out to
RunDLL32.exe, not sure though if Add Scheduled Tasks can be invoked using
this method.

Cheers,
Gagik

 

[John Bowman]

Gagik,

Again, thanks for the link. Unfortunately, it still doesn't get me where I
need to go. There must be some MS person out there who knows how they call
it when the user double clicks on the "Add Scheduled Task" icon inside the
"Scheduled Tasks" folder. I'm guessing you need to use Rundll32.exe and some
dll function somewhere that I cannot find any doc's for.

John

 

[Fabio]

Hi,

If it is a control panel applet you may be able to use control panel to open
the applet in your behalf. Just create a new process launching "control
<appletname>" (eg. control userpasswords2) , hopefully that will work for
you.

Fabio Cavalcante
tp_slc_facavalcanteATmsnDOTcom

 

[John Bowman]

Fabio,

Thanks for the post. I played that idea too. It works to open the "Scheduled
Tasks" folder by starting a process for Control.exe and the argument being
"SchedTasks". Unfortunately, 2 problems: 1)Tthe process that opens the
folder window exits immediately once the folder window is opened, so there's
no way (short of monitoring/using FindWindowEx on the "Scheduled Tasks"
window) to determine when the user is finished with it. 2) There's still no
way to launch the "Add Scheduled Task" wizard ... bummer .

John