i have a exe file , which must be opened with a command line
start a.exe /stext d:/alpha.txt
to save a file in d drive. I tried creating a batch file and calling it in vb but the batch dosent executes the exe file, so is there any direct method to add command line in vb to run the exe file to generate the alpha text.
Use this:
System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(Process Name)
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I need to run exe file on command prompt to pass some parameters and in the code of exe file i have run a bat file using VB.NET built-in shell method, but when run exe file on command prompt the shell method seems printed the entire code of the bat file out into cmd, this is not allowed.
Example:
Shell("any code and path to file", AppWinStyle.Hide)
Note: I have to run this bat file with shell method of VB.NET
I put my LINQPAD.config in the same folder as LINQPad.exe and it works well for LinqPad GUI.
When I run the same .linq program via lprun.exe. lprun.exe does not use the same LINQPAD.config file as LINQPad.exe but instead it expects a LINQPAD.config file in the same directory as the .linq file which is passed as an argument to lprun.exe.
This is quite inconvenient. Now, I have two options, either copy LINQPAD.config to where my .linq script is or copy my .linq script to where lprun.exe is.
lprun.exe's help doesn't mention anything about specifying a path to LINQPAD.config.
This is a bug and will be fixed for the next LINQPad 5 release (5.0.10). It should pick up the config file from the query folder only if it exists, otherwise it should fall back to the lprun.exe folder.
Ok, the the question looks freakish, but this is sort of a continuation of the question I posted
here.
So, I create a .bat file in Visual Studio with certain lines and launch it, but it basically doesn't find the files it needs, but if I launch the .bat file it created manually, it works.
The problem, as far as I see it, is that the .bat file the program launches isn't the same as the one that is created in the folder?
The .bat files use the command line interface of Asesprite found here, e.g. :
#set ASEPRITE="C:\Program Files\Aseprite\aseprite.exe"
%ASEPRITE% --batch animation.ase --scale 2 --save-as animation-x2.gif
I'm not sure which part of the VB code I'd need to share, so ask if needed.
The error in .bat goes something like:
C:\Users\User\Desktop\aseConverter\aseConverter\bin\Debug>"E\Asesprite\asesprite.exe" --batch skeleton2_gib3.ase --scale 1 --save-as skeleton2_gib3.gif
File not found: "skeleton2_gib3.ase"
Error loading file "skeleton2_gib3.ase"
A document is needed before --save-as arguement
The first line should not be the Debug folder, but the location the .bat file was created in. I've no idea how to fix it.
It SHOULD be
C:\Users\User\Desktop\skeleton>"E\Asesprite\asesprite.exe" --batch skeleton2_gib3.ase --scale 1 --save-as skeleton2_gib3.gif
The problem here is that the batch file references files without path. Therefore the files must be in current working directory of the batch file.
But the batch file respectively command line interpreter cmd.exe is called by the VB.net without setting the working directory. Therefore the current working directory set by Windows for the batch file is the same as of the starting VB.net application.
But the starting application creates the batch file and the other files in a different directory, not in its own current working directory.
One solution is changing current working directory inside batch file to the directory the batch file is stored. This can be done by referencing argument 0 of the batch file which contains name of batch file with complete path.
What does %~dp0 mean, and how does it work? explains how to get drive and path of batch file.
Therefore one solution is to use a batch file like below:
#echo off
cd /D "%~dp0"
set "ASEPRITE=%ProgramFiles%\Aseprite\aseprite.exe"
"%ASEPRITE%" --batch animation.ase --scale 2 --save-as animation-x2.gif
See help output after executing cd /? in a command prompt window for meaning of parameter /D (change also drive if necessary).
An explanation for %~dp0 can be read on running call /? or for /? in a command prompt window.
Another possibility would be the usage of following batch code:
#echo off
pushd "%~dp0"
set "ASEPRITE=%ProgramFiles%\Aseprite\aseprite.exe"
"%ASEPRITE%" --batch animation.ase --scale 2 --save-as animation-x2.gif
popd
The difference to command cd is explained in help which is output in a command prompt window after executing pushd /?.
Best would be to create the batch file with all files referencing with complete path, name and file extension.
I am using a Script Task in SSIS. So I am writing in vb.net. I have a substantial amount of code that ends up writing two files: one is a .bat file with this EXACT contents in it, minus I've changed hostname, username, and password of course:
C:\Users\ipisors\AppData\Local\Temp\091014121929_Phoenix\psftp.exe -pw PASSWORD -b C:\Users\ipisors\AppData\Local\Temp\091014121929_Phoenix\091014121929.txt USERNAME#HOST
(I'm sure it has this, because I manually check it after the Script Task runs).
The content of the .txt file referenced in the command is this EXACTLY:
cd uploads
cd OUT
mget PhoenixEnrollment_20140910*.txt
bye
MY QUESTION -
After the script task runs successfully, there is no downloaded file inside the directory of PSFTP.EXE (C:\Users\ipisors\AppData\Local\Temp\091014121929_Phoenix). Nothing.
However, if I manually double click on that same batch file that the script task was supposed to SHELL(), it immediately works perfectly. Within a few seconds, there is a downloaded file inside C:\Users\ipisors\AppData\Local\Temp\091014121929_Phoenix
What could possibly be the difference in reaction from the FTP server, between my script task code:
Shell(strBatPhoenix, AppWinStyle.NormalFocus, True)
(which by the way - yes I can actually see it working!)
and double clicking the same da*n file
I've also debugged the script task, it's definition Shelling out the EXACT SAME bat file.
Help please!
I will say the password to the SFTP site has a caret (^) in it, which I am escaping by using a double caret.
Figured it out after additionally testing one other way:
I used the command prompt itself to run my batch file. It ALSO did not download to the expected directory. I began to suspect that, even though the Shell was automating a batch file in the 'desired' folder......that batch file was then reading the 'local' directory as whatever calling application had initially Shelled it out.
In this case: c:\users\myusername. And therein was my file.
Lesson to be learned: Shelling a batch file, even if that batch file shells another file, may end up with one application or another reading your instant directory as the instant directory of the application that did the first shell, not the last shell.
i need to execute a .lnk file in vb.net (lnk file that points at an exe file).
how can i do?
shell("path/file.lnk")
don't works
thx you for help.
You didn't indicate your platform, but on Windows 7, use Process.Start to launch an application using a .lnk file:
Process.Start(pathToLink)