Hi,
I am writing a VB.NET application. It is a Windows application at the
moment.
The application contains a button. the click event of button perform a
long running task.
It needs to be started by windows task scheduler to carry out some
operation.

When I am testing the application I want to differentiate if the
"differentiate between a program launched manually and launched by a
windows task scheduler" so that in the load event of form I can call
the function which carries out long running task when application is
started by scheduler OR else if it ws launched manually then nothing
will happen automatically. USer will have to click the button to
perform the operation.

Again can someone show me ....
How to differentiate between a program launched manually and launched
by a windows task scheduler ???

Any help is greatly appreciated....
Thanks in advance,
--Mike.

I think the easiest way is to configure Task Scheduler to pass in an
extra command line parameter that you then can check for in your Main
procedure.


Mattias

Hello!
You wrote  on 5 Jan 2007 13:13:54 -0800:

mh> Again can someone show me ....
mh> How to differentiate between a program launched manually and launched
mh> by a windows task scheduler ???

http://vbnet.mvps.org/index.html?code/system/getparentprocess.htm

With best regards,
Eugene Mayevski
http://www.SecureBlackbox.com - the comprehensive component suite for
network security

Great...
Thanks...It works after a little tweak to the parameter types from long
to integer and same for return types may be because I am on windows XP
SP@ at the moment.
In the course of solving this problem I alos found some elegent code
that worked same way...

http://www.csharpfriends.com/Forums/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=27395

and
microsoft.public.dotnet.framework
http://groups.google.to/group/microsoft.public.dotnet.framework.aspnet/browse_thread/thread/9567b59857e8231e/9c1da01e43c2ff49?lnk=st&q=dotnet+th32ParentProcessID+-herfried&rnum=8#9c1da01e43c2ff49

Thanks a ton any way for such prompt help...
--Mike


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