I am writing a url shortener app and I would like to also create a console app with C# to push the URLs to a WCF service which I have also created.
WCF app will shorten the url on this URI;
http://example.com/shorten/http://exaple.com
so what I want is just that.
My console exe file will be sitting inside c:\dev
folder and on Windows command line, I would like to do this;
c:\dev>myapp -throw http://example.com
with this method I would like to talk to that service. there is no problem on talking part. But the problem is how can I supply this -throw thing on the command line and get a response and put that response on the command line and supply a method to copy that to the clipboard. Am I asking too much here? :S I don't know.
Could you direct me somewhere that I can find information on that or could u please give me an example code of this?
Thanks.
EDIT : I have tried the following code;
class Program {
static void Main(string[] args) {
if (args[0] == "-throw") {
System.Windows.Forms.Clipboard.SetDataObject(args[1]);
Console.WriteLine(args[1] + " has been added to clipboard !");
Console.ReadLine();
}
}
}
and I received the following error;
C:\Apps\ArgsTry\ArgsTry\bin\Debug>ArgsTry -throw man
Unhandled Exception: System.Threading.ThreadStateException: Current thread must be set to single thread apartment (STA) mode before OLE calls can be made. Ensur e that your Main function has STAThreadAttribute marked on it. at System.Windows.Forms.Clipboard.SetDataObject(Object data, Boolean copy, In t32 retryTimes, Int32 retryDelay) at System.Windows.Forms.Clipboard.SetDataObject(Object data) at ArgsTry.Program.Main(String[] args) in c:\apps\ArgsTry\ArgsTry\Program.cs: line 14
C:\Apps\ArgsTry\ArgsTry\bin\Debug>