Newbie question:  I wrote and compile 2 .EXEs which display windows forms.
From the VB.NET program I'm trying to call another EXE and pass parameters
to its constructor.  I'm trying to get this to work using AppDomain and
CreateInstance.  And it works ok w/o parameters.  But I can't get the syntax
right to pass parms.  How do I do this?  Is there an easier way, besides
AppDomain and CreateInstance?

Thank you in advance.

NOTE: This assumes you are using the RTM, as this will not work with some
betas:

Module Module1
  Sub Main(ByVal strArgs() As String)
    Dim intCounter As Integer
    For intCounter = 0 To UBound(strArgs)
       Console.WriteLine(intCounter & ". " & strArgs(intCounter))
    Next
    Console.Read()
  End Sub
End Module

Now, you can call this app (I called it Test App), like this:

testApp.exe I can now accept parameters on start.

The Main() here is the starting point of the app, and can accept parameters.

The other way (not preferred):
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Add a reference to the Microsoft.Visual.Basic DLL and use the namespace. You
can then access the Command object (for command line arguments) and parse it
out. The parsing will add additional overhead, but it will feel familiar.
Here is the code:

Module Module1
  Sub Main()
    'NOTE: Split(x," ") and Split(x) are the same.
    Dim strArgs() As String = Split(Microsoft.VisualBasic.Command)
    Dim intCounter As Integer
    For intCounter = 0 To UBound(strArgs)
      Console.WriteLine(intCounter & ". " & strArgs(intCounter))
    Next
    Console.Read()
  End Sub
End Module

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Gregory A. Beamer
MVP; MCP: +I, SE, SD, DBA
Author: ADO.NET and XML: ASP.NET on the Edge

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Peter

On Mon, 28 Jan 2002 22:13:29 -0500, "Jose Arcadio Buendia"

This the code:
''''''''' This works: starts at default form, but no parms passed....

Dim CurrentDomain As AppDomain = AppDomain.CurrentDomain()

 CurrentDomain.CreateInstance("SiteSurveyHome2C",
"SiteSurveyHome2C.frmMatReqList")

'''''''''' Try to pas parms...This doesn't work  - I get a compile (syntax)
error on the CreateInstance ... objParms()

Dim objParms() As Object

objParms(0) = CType(24, Object)

Dim CurrentDomain As AppDomain = AppDomain.CurrentDomain()

''''' Error on the following line objParms()

CurrentDomain.CreateInstance("SiteSurveyHome2C",
"SiteSurveyHome2C.frmMatReqList", True,
Reflection.BindingFlags.CreateInstance, Nothing, objParms(), Nothing,
Nothing, , )

Any ideas?  Thanks

If this were the case, I have spent the last two months on my current
project all for nothing! ;-) But fortunately it is not.

Cal

On Tue, 29 Jan 2002 13:00:06 -0500, "Jose Arcadio Buendia"

Included a zip file with a very easy example. Opne the solution in
test2.
test2 is a dll, and test1 is an exe. If you have VB.net final you
could run the exe in the root

Peter

Armin