Hello, I'm having a somewhat complicated need, I'm developing an application that sends pdf files to an application via webservices. I just want to let this problem start in some different ways. I'll try to explain by example. When I have a file in Work and drag it to a shortcut the same word is opened, and this happens with several programs. Or when you right click on a word file and in the context menu "send to" windows appears the word and it opens the file. I would like my application to work this way. I'm working C # Windows Forms in Visual Studio. I was able to get a similar function by dragging the file into the textBox with the DragDrop Event. I've done a lot of research on Google, but I do not know if I'm looking wrong, because I did not find anything. If someone else has done something similar or has some idea how to do it.
Open Program with dragging file (PDF) and recovering the path
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asked by anonymous 23.08.2017 / 21:36
1 answer
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All you have to do is deal with the arguments you have started with the application. With this you can even call the application from the command line, like this:
enviarpdf.exe "c:\pdf\arquivo.pdf"
To treat the arguments, simply declare a string array as a parameter of the main method:
static void Main(string[] args)
{
if (args.Length != 0)
{
string arg = args[0];
MessageBox.Show(arg);
}
}
Because your application is winforms and considering you need the path inside Form1, it could be done like this:
static void Main(string[] args)
{
Application.EnableVisualStyles();
Application.SetCompatibleTextRenderingDefault(false);
Application.Run(new Form1(args.Lenght >0 ? args[0] : null));
}
So, the first argument will be passed to Form1.
ps. Of course in Form1, you should put the constructor to get a parameter of type string.
public Form1(string _arquivo)
{
InitializeComponent();
ArquivoPdf = _arquivo;
}
23.08.2017 / 21:46