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Scheduling an exe (emoreau's example)

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I've followed this code

http://emoreau.com/Entries/Articles/2008/11/Passing-arguments-to-an-application-startup.aspx

Method 2 of that link. I compiled and have an exe. I want to schedule it as a Service. Per that article, I need to pass a paramter '/batch' to have it run as a service...

When I'm in debug, I add the command line argument to "Debug" tab of properties. When I want to schedule the exe...where do I need to put the command line argument?

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Question by:Camillia

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by:Kent Dyer

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ID: 387525512013-01-07

Depends on where you are running the scheduled task..

Windows XP or 2000/2003 would take the switch on the same command line..

I think Windows 2008 has a place for parameters..
Same with Task Scheduler Professional..

Have a look at SCHTASKS.exe to set this up...
http://ss64.com/nt/schtasks.html

HTH,

Kent

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by:Éric Moreau

ID: 387531962013-01-07

are you creating your task manually in the Windows "Task Scheduler"? If so, you can add your argument to name of the exe.

or you can create a batch file with that argument and launch the batch in the task

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by:Camillia

ID: 387532022013-01-07

I think I will use Windows Task Scheduler. I've never done this before tho. What do you mean adding it to the name of the exe? I know if I right click on the exe, select "properties", there's a "Target" field and I can add the paramter to end of it. Is this what you mean?

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by:Éric Moreau

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ID: 387532102013-01-07

the task scheduler screens varies according to the version of windows you are using

whatever the version your are using, there is a place where you set the full path of your exe. you can add /batch at the end

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by:Camillia

ID: 387532252013-01-07

i will look. I will keep this question open for now. Thanks for your help.

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