Does anybody know how to find what commandline arguments were given when a process was started? Preferably without using WMI, which is a little slow.

Anybody who refers to static void Main ( string [] args ) in their answer gets shot - I mean, of course, a process other than the one which wants to know what the arguments are/were ;)

Ed.
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Now you are just asking for trouble! ;)

Of course, the answer is....

    static void Main(string[] args)

What else do you expect? I have seem some argument "frameworks" (for lack of a better term) that simplify dealing with the args. But ultimately in the end, you simply have to parse the array and look for all the things you expect to find.

I'm not sure why MS has not made it a little easier to deal with this but I guess the "argument" (har har) would be that you are going from a very uncontrollable world (the command line) to a very controlled world (managed .NET). Short or handling the parsing of the command line by giving you an array of space delimited values you have to figure out what it all means on your own.

Try googling for c# command line argument helpers or something similar. I have used such a helper but can't remember for the life of me where I found it. It was a long time ago that I used it.

-Peter

After re-reading your original post again, I think I got your meaning.

I don't think you can. I imagine only the process that was started from the command line can get at the command args (based on the protection level of the args array on the static method. But I suppose you could just drop the array to a private var and expose it to the world. Would that work?

(Sorry for the long winded off-topic reply, I got myself going when I thought up the bad pun.)

-Peter

Thanks for the replies, I will forgive your awful pun

I'm sure there is a way... Process Explorer (www.sysinternals.com) is able to find the arguments of a running process, and my colleague has seen a way which uses WMI but it's very slow and I was hoping there might be a faster way as I'm quite new to C#.
Naturally, I've been searching the world's largest textbook (google) but no luck so far. There are a couple of examples of using WMI at these sites:
http://www.dotnet247.com/247reference/msgs/7/35098.aspx
http://www.codeproject.com/cs/system...select=1274879

but as I said, it's a little slow. It's also very ugly, and I was hoping there might be a "cleaner" C# solution than using what appears to be SQL queries.

Ed.
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There is a way other than
which is parsing
but I don't think this would be helpful in what you want to do.

.pk