how to execute script without installing the exe of its program - vb.net

I am executing a autoit script when autoit is installed in the system by using the following code
objProcess = New System.Diagnostics.Process()
objProcess.StartInfo.Arguments = "abc"
objProcess.StartInfo.FileName = "Z:\Scripts\test.au3"
objProcess.Start()
But I need to do same by giving a path to a unzipped files instead of installing it on system. Any idea how can I do this.
e.g My autoit path where I extracted files are z:\Software\autoit3.exe and my scripts path is "Z:\Scripts\test.au3".

You can compile your script files with the included Au2Exe compiler. This will turn your .au3 files into .exe files and they can be run without needing to install AutoIt on the computer first.

Use the command line parameters as described in the helpfile, and run the autoit3.exe as the main process.
At it's most basic you would use something like:
objProcess.StartInfo.FileName = "path\\autoit3.exe"
objProcess.StartInfo.Arguments = "\"path\\test.au3\" abc" // You can add any arguments for the script afterwards.
Note that I have never used vb.net, so don't expect anything I write to work first time :P But that is the basic idea.

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Is there a way for me to write a script in Robot Framework that utilize's the command line functions?

I'm currently working in Linux, and I know you can use Run Process to run certain applications, but I was wondering if there's a possible way to have my script running, open command line, input, for example: "clean" which in my case processes a few functions in my bash.rc. That would be extremely helpful in my automation right now.
Well essentially, what I did was I created a separate .sh executable file. Opened my .bashrc and copied my functions / aliases into my .sh file using the gedit editor. Then from my Robot Script, I used the Run Process command (I don't have my exact code at the moment) and called my executable file.

Windows Form VB.Net - Attaching empty Directories for Deployment

I'm creating a GUI in order to launch a batch file which then kicks off a Powershell script. The GUI compiles fine and everything works great, however when I go to deploy the file it doesn't actually include any of the empty directories my script relies on.
How can I add empty directories to be included in my published VB form during install?
I don't think you can. Why don't you just do
If Not Directory.Exists(dir) Then
Directory.Create(dir)
End If
for each directory? I would create a list of directories over which to enumerate and run this each time the application is run.
You can always use the post build step to either create the directories you need or do other logic that your program may need such as run a batch file or power-shell script
See the example below. It will create a directory Test in the output directory where the .exe is placed.

Using SSIS package to zip all the txt files and move to related folder [duplicate]

I am trying to zip the contents of a Folder in SSIS, there are files and folders in the source folder and I need to zip them all individually. I can get the files to zip fine my problem is the folders.
I have to use 7.zip to create the zipped packages.
Can anyone point me to a good tutorial. I haven't been able to implement any of the samples that I have found.
Thanks
This is how I have configured it.
Its easy to configure but the trick is in constructing the Arguments. Though you see the Arguments as static in the screenshot, its actually coming from a variable and that variable is set in the Arguments expression of Execute Process Task.
I presume you will have this Execute Process task in a For Each File Ennumerator with Traverse SubFolders checked.
Once you have this basic setup in place, all you need to do is work on building the arguments to do the zipping, how you want them. A good place to find all the command line arguments is here.
Finally, the only issue I ran into was not providing a working directory in the command line arguments for 7zip. The package used to run fine on my dev environment but used to fail when running on the server via a SQL job. This was because 7zip didn't have access to the 'Temp' folder on the SQL Server, which it uses by default as the 'working directory'. I got round this problem by specifying the 'working directory as follows at the end of the command line arguments, using the -ws switch:
For e.g:
a -t7z DestinationFile.7z SourceFile -wS:YourTempDirectoryToWhichTheSQLAgentHasRights

Executing Love2D scripts

The only way I found out to execute my script with the Love2d framework is to zip all of it and then rename the zip to love. This kinds of take a lot of time for a small modification. Is there a faster way to do it? I tried to command line and I get this error
'love' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
LÖVE also executes folders if they have the main.lua in them - you can just drag and drop the folder onto the application, or call it from the command line with the folder as the argument if you prefer.
LÖVE runs the contents of a folder if it can find a main.lua in it (Like Bill said).
[Note that it doesn't check subfolders].
There are three ways to run a love2D program, you can:
a) Drag the folder over the love.exe binary/link (This works in Win and *Nix, I don't know about OS X).
b) Navigate to the directory that is one level above the folder and type love [folder containing main.lua]
or
c) Zip it up and rename the .zip to a .love. Then double click the .love file
Option 'b' will fail if the binary is not in the %PATH%(Windows) or $PATH(*Nix) variable
(It will spout an error message like 'love' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. on windows and bash: love: command not found on linux).
There are two ways to solve this:
(Both require ADMIN/root privileges, )
1) Add the love binary to the PATH variable. Here's how to do this in windows and in linux (In linux you want to do something like this: PATH=$PATH:$HOME/where/ever/you/put/love/)
2) You can add a link to the love2D binary in C:\WINDOWS\system32 or /usr/bin/.
In windows you create a shortcut to the love.exe (wherever you installed it to) and then drag it into C:\WINDOWS\system32. In linux you can run this:
sudo link /path/to/love/binary /usr/bin/love && sudo chmod ugo+rwx /usr/bin/love
I hope this helps!
Sources:
Google (the links above), Love2D and my knowledge :D
I found this to be very helpful when i started. Hope this helps
A Guide to Getting Started With Love2d
If you're using Mac OS, you should run using:
open -a love xxx.love
To recreate a file as .love, you can run in command line:
zip xxx.love file1.lua file2
If you just want to replace a file in .love:
zip -r xxx.love file1.lua
I think this will make your work easier.
simple way:
create folder /path/to/Game
put your files (main.lua, conf.lua, ...) in folder /path/to/Game
you can run script like this:
love /path/to/Game/
or if you use Linux, you can go in folder (cd /path/to/Game) and type just:
love .
(dot means that you want to run it form in folder
I found a simple solution for save time.
You have to create a file .bat with this simple command:
del Project.love
7z.exe a Project.zip ..\Project\*
ren Project.zip Project.love
For do this you need to download 7zip and insert this file (file.bat) into the folder of your project. Like this:
Good work!
If you're yousing Notepad++ to write your code, just open your main.lua file, then go to Run and add there this text including quotes:
"Path" "$(CURRENT_DIRECTORY)"
Where Path is a Full path to love.exe.
The save it to a key combination and now you can test your code by using this combination in any script at Notepad++.
If you use Sublime Text, you can make a build which runs your application.
https://love2d.org/wiki/Sublime_Text
While in Sublime Text press CMD + B or Ctrl + B

Changing target directory for a pre-build command in VS 2005

I'm programming in VB using Visual Studio 2005 Professional.
I have a code munger perl script that generates some of the *.vb files that I want to compile. The script and the associated files are in my project directory, and when I run the script from the OS command prompt, it writes the files in the same directory, which is what I want.
Rather than do this, I want to invoke the perl script as a pre-build event. I've gotten it to work ... almost. The only issue now is that the files are now deposited in TargetDir (/bin/Release e.g.) instead of ProjectDir. I could just change TargetDir to be ProjectDir, but that seems like I'm asking for trouble.
Is there a way to separately specify the target directory for pre-build commands? Or change it to ProjectDir, then change it back after I'm done with the pre-build? Or maybe I just need to write a command that moves the files back where I want?
Thanks in advance!
You can simply prepend a cd command to your command:
cd ProjectDir
do_my_stuff
Your custom build step will be written out as a batch file by Visual Studio and run with cmd.exe, so cd commands will work just fine.