Using Click Once for a Console Application

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Orlando - 17 Mar 2006 22:41 GMT

Hi,
We need to have two interfaces into our web services layer - a GUI and a
command line scriptable client. I know Click Once can be used for both GUI
and CUI apps... but can the Console App be called via a batch file? So far
I've found one place that says this isn't possible, but i wanted to confirm
that their is absolutely no work around.

thanks,
Orlando

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"Jeffrey Tan[MSFT]" - 20 Mar 2006 08:02 GMT

Hi Orlando,

Thanks for your post!

Batch file is a collection of shell command. .Net ClickOnce uses rundll32
with dfshim.dll to lauch the *.application file, so we can place this shell
command in a batch file. Then it will invoke the ClickOnce application
without any problem.

Try placing the following in the test.bat file:
rundll32.exe dfshim.dll,ShOpenVerbApplication
http://machinename/appname/appname.application

Hope this helps!

Best regards,
Jeffrey Tan
Microsoft Online Partner Support

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Orlando - 20 Mar 2006 17:46 GMT

Thanks for your response.. Can you pass arguments in this method such that
the console app will get them? For example,

ConsoleApp -f c:\MyFileToRead.txt

Or are you limited to passing things via querystring?

Orlando

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"Jeffrey Tan[MSFT]" - 21 Mar 2006 03:05 GMT

Hi Orlando,

Yes, we cannot use commandLine to pass parameters into the ClickOnce
application at run time. We can only access query string parameters for a
ClickOnce deployment from the application's AppDomain. For more
information, please refer to the article below:
"How to: Retrieve Query String Information in a ClickOnce Application "
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms172242(VS.80).aspx

Hope this helps!

Best regards,
Jeffrey Tan
Microsoft Online Partner Support

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