How to pass all selected files names to C# application ?

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Hi,

I would like to select several files on my desktop (or any other folder) and pass their names to my application.

More specifically, I've added a key to the registry such that when I right click on a jpeg file I see a new "Transform" option that actually runs my application. The question is how can I pass all selected files names to my application ?

Thanks a lot !

Posted 18-Jan-10 10:52am

moroshko

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Solution 1

Doesn't it just happen ? what testing have you done ? I'd expect that once you have this set up, your app will be started once for each selected file, and passed that filename.

Posted 18-Jan-10 11:06am

Christian Graus

Solution 2

Actually, I don't know how to get the filenames in my app.
I started a new Windows Form Application project in Visual Studio, and the automatically generated Main() function does not have the "args" parameter. Why ?

Posted 18-Jan-10 11:16am

moroshko

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C#

static void Main(string[] args)
{
    // args should be your file names
}

Posted 21-Jan-10 4:22am

Toli Cuturicu

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AspDotNetDev · Accepted Answer · 2010-01-18T11:35:00

Solution 3

For Windows Forms applications, use Environment.GetCommandLineArgs().

Posted 18-Jan-10 11:35am

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