Winforms app as a console app

[Omkumar Enkannathan]

Hai,

I wrote a windows forms application and everything is fine. From this app, I
am inserting data from a text file to a database table.

How do I run this application from command line? The user would pass the
server name, db name and the text file as arguments.

My main problem is how do I report status back to the console window while
it is loading the data?

thanks,
omkamal.

 

[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

I wrote a windows forms application and everything is fine. From this app, I
am inserting data from a text file to a database table.

How do I run this application from command line? The user would pass the
server name, db name and the text file as arguments.

That bit is easy - just use Main (String[] args) as you would for any
other app.

My main problem is how do I report status back to the console window while
it is loading the data?

That's harder - but do you definitely need to report the status back to
the console window? Can't you pop up a progress bar saying that you're
loading data?

 

[Omkumar Enkannathan]

Thanks for your reply. I figured out the first part as you said. But I
cannot popup a progress bar. I need to write the log to the console window,
because its not just saying "Loading data...". Its a bit more than that.

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Om.

I wrote a windows forms application and everything is fine. From this app, I
am inserting data from a text file to a database table.

How do I run this application from command line? The user would pass the
server name, db name and the text file as arguments.

That bit is easy - just use Main (String[] args) as you would for any
other app.

My main problem is how do I report status back to the console window while
it is loading the data?

That's harder - but do you definitely need to report the status back to
the console window? Can't you pop up a progress bar saying that you're
loading data?

 

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

Thanks for your reply. I figured out the first part as you said. But I
cannot popup a progress bar. I need to write the log to the console window,
because its not just saying "Loading data...". Its a bit more than that.

Why not create a console application which shows a window?

 

[Bob Powell [MVP]]

If you create a Windows Forms application but compile it as a console app,
it will start a console when it first runs and then work as a winforms app
as soon as it hits the Application.Run(new Form1()) line.

Any thing you do with Console.WriteLine will turn up on the console.

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[pedagogue]

Can you tell me how to compile a winforms app to a console app?

Thanks.

 

[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

Can you tell me how to compile a winforms app to a console app?

Just change the project type to "Console Application". The potential
downside of this is that if you double-click on it in Explorer, you'll
still get a console.