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FolderBrowserDialog won't show in a single .cs file without Form

I am trying to code a program which is executed when a file is right clicked in windows, and then a context menu feature named 'Move to' executes a file in the windows registry HKEY ClASSES. It ought to parse in "%1" as argument when it executes, so that my program knows where the file is located. However, when I compile my single .cs file, the FolderBrowserDialog won't show. I am suspecting that it is because I haven't initialized some kind of form before I call it. Is it possible in some way to choose a folder from a single c# file without including Forms?
using System;
using System.IO;
using System.Reflection;
using System.Windows.Forms;
public class MoveTo : Form
{
public static string current_file_path;
public static string new_file_path;
public static string file_name;
public static void Main(string[] args){
if (args.Length > 0)
{
current_file_path = (string) args[0];
file_name = (string) current_file_path.Replace(Path.GetDirectoryName(Environment.GetCommandLineArgs()[1]), "");
var browser = new FolderBrowserDialog();
if (browser.ShowDialog()==DialogResult.OK)
{
new_file_path = browser.SelectedPath + file_name;
}else
{
Environment.Exit(1);
}
try
{
File.Move(current_file_path, new_file_path);
}catch(Exception ex)
{
MessageBox.Show(ex.ToString());
}
}
}
}

If you bypass the argument check and try to show the FBD in a debugger, with this exact code, you will see System.Threading.ThreadStateException: 'Current thread must be set to single thread apartment (STA) mode before OLE calls can be made. Ensure that your Main function has STAThreadAttribute marked on it. This exception is only raised if a debugger is attached to the process.'
As per the error message, this exception won't be raised if no debugger is attached. Put an [STAThread] attribute on your Main method, like you normally see in any windows forms app:
[STAThread]
public static void Main(string[] args)
{
...
I also recommend you add an else for your outer if, to show an error if no arguments are passed (otherwise your app will exit silently

How do I know if my app was opened from console or windows in C#

I have an application that is both gui and console.
Console: It executes from a windows schedule to do some automated tasks, so its called with an argument
GUI: Used for entering config parameters, a much nicer way for the user to do this than console.
All this works great. its primarily a console app, the console is hidden if its opened with no arguments and the configuration form is shown.
Problem:
If I open it FROM the console with NO arguments, the console is hidden and the form is shown.
how can i detect what or where i opened the app from, if it was opened from windows then hide the console, if it was opened from console then leave the console shown.

If you really want to know "where" your application has been started you have to know what is your parent process. In order to know your parent process you can read the solution of How to get parent process in .NET in managed way
Then you can for example check if your parent process name is explorer(windows) to open your application as a GUI.
sample code based on the solution provided in How to get parent process in .NET in managed way
namespace ConsoleApp1
{
public static class ProcessExtensions
{
private static string FindIndexedProcessName(int pid)
{
var processName = Process.GetProcessById(pid).ProcessName;
var processesByName = Process.GetProcessesByName(processName);
string processIndexdName = null;
for (var index = 0; index < processesByName.Length; index++)
{
processIndexdName = index == 0 ? processName : processName + "#" + index;
var processId = new PerformanceCounter("Process", "ID Process", processIndexdName);
if ((int)processId.NextValue() == pid)
{
return processIndexdName;
}
}
return processIndexdName;
}
private static Process FindPidFromIndexedProcessName(string indexedProcessName)
{
var parentId = new PerformanceCounter("Process", "Creating Process ID", indexedProcessName);
return Process.GetProcessById((int)parentId.NextValue());
}
public static Process Parent(this Process process)
{
return FindPidFromIndexedProcessName(FindIndexedProcessName(process.Id));
}
}
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
Console.WriteLine(Process.GetCurrentProcess().Parent().ProcessName);
Console.ReadKey();
}
}
}
This code will outputs:
debug in visual studio: devenv
start from windows: explorer
start from cmd: cmd
start from powershell console: powershell
...

One way to do this is to separate your cli version and gui version into 2 executable (like 7z do with 7z.exe a command line tool and 7zG the Gui version)
You could have 3 projects in visual studio:
MyApp.Console (console app)
MyApp.WindowsGui (winform/wpf app)
MyApp.Logic (all the logic)
Console and WindowsGui have a reference to your Logic project
This will give you cleaner code as each "Frontend" project will handle only their purpose (handling GUI or console stuff) and your Logic are callable by both frontends

I am unclear as to what you're trying to achieve. From my understanding, the application will launch as a console application regardless of having arguments or not. To prevent it from disappearing, you can utilize a Boolean to prevent the window from closing while the user is inputting configuration. For example (syntax may not be 100% at DialogResult):
using System;
using System.Windows.Forms;
// Allows you to access the static objects of Console
// without having to repeatedly type Console.Something.
using static System.Console;
static bool configured = false;
static bool showForm = false;
static void Main(string[] args) {
showForm = args.Length < 1;
if (showForm) {
WriteLine("The application needs to be configured.");
using (ConfigForm config = new ConfigForm()) {
if (config.ShowDialog() == DialogResult.OK) {
showForm = false;
configured = true;
// Set your configured arguments here.
}
}
}
// Prevents the console from closing.
while (showForm)
ReadKey();
// Do your processing in this condition.
if (!showForm && configured)
WriteLine("Thanks for playing. Press any key to exit.");
else // Retry or exit in this one.
WriteLine("An error occurred. Press any key to exit.");
ReadKey();
}
If your application is set as a console application then it will launch the console window by default. Now, if you need to show and hide your console at different times, you can look into this post where the accepted answer provides a proper way to utilize Windows API to achieve this without having to perform some shady logic to find the window by title or identity.
using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
[DllImport("kernel32.dll")]
static extern IntPtr GetConsoleWindow();
[DllImport("user32.dll")]
static extern bool ShowWindow(IntPtr hWnd, int nCmdShow);
const int SW_HIDE = 0;
const int SW_SHOW = 5;
var handle = GetConsoleWindow();
// Hide
ShowWindow(handle, SW_HIDE);
// Show
ShowWindow(handle, SW_SHOW);
If this doesn't solve what you need, feel free to be more thorough in your post and include some code to give more definition to your issue. I am unable to comment and ask questions so I gave a basic solution. If you have any questions, feel free to ask.

This might help:
using System;
using System.Diagnostics;
static class IsRanFromConsole
{
private static readonly string[] consoleNames = {
"cmd", "bash", "ash", "dash", "ksh", "zsh", "csh",
"tcsh", "ch", "eshell", "fish", "psh", "pwsh", "rc",
"sash", "scsh", "powershell", "tcc"
};
private static bool isCache = false;
private static bool isConsole;
public static bool IsConsole()
{
if (!isCache)
{
string parentProc = Process.GetCurrentProcess().Parent().ProcessName;
isConsole = Array.IndexOf(consoleNames, parentProc) > -1;
}
return isConsole;
}
}
Usage:
Console.WriteLine(IsRanFromConsole.IsConsole());
For the .Parent() function, you need to add this code.

Quantum Program The name 'BellTest' does not exist in the current context

This is my first Q# program and i'm following this getting started link.https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/quantum/quantum-writeaquantumprogram?view=qsharp-preview
Error is
The name 'BellTest' does not exist in the current context
but its defined in the Bell.cs
I followed the steps and when building its having errors. I'm not sure how to import the operations from .qs file to driver c# file as this error looks like it can't find that operation.
Any help is really appreciated
Here is the code
Driver.cs
using Microsoft.Quantum.Simulation.Core;
using Microsoft.Quantum.Simulation.Simulators;
namespace Quantum.Bell
{
class Driver
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
using (var sim = new QuantumSimulator())
{
// Try initial values
Result[] initials = new Result[] { Result.Zero, Result.One };
foreach (Result initial in initials)
{
var res = BellTest.Run(sim, 1000, initial).Result;
var (numZeros, numOnes) = res;
System.Console.WriteLine(
$"Init:{initial,-4} 0s={numZeros,-4} 1s={numOnes,-4}");
}
}
System.Console.WriteLine("Press any key to continue...");
System.Console.ReadKey();
}
}
}
Bell.qs
namespace Quantum.Bell
{
open Microsoft.Quantum.Primitive;
open Microsoft.Quantum.Canon;
operation Set (desired:Result,q1:Qubit) : ()
{
body
{
let current = M(q1);
if (desired != current)
{
X(q1);
}
}
}
operation BellTest (count : Int, initial: Result) : (Int,Int)
{
body
{
mutable numOnes = 0;
using (qubits = Qubit[1])
{
for (test in 1..count)
{
Set (initial, qubits[0]);
let res = M (qubits[0]);
// Count the number of ones we saw:
if (res == One)
{
set numOnes = numOnes + 1;
}
}
Set(Zero, qubits[0]);
}
// Return number of times we saw a |0> and number of times we saw a |1>
return (count-numOnes, numOnes);
}
}
}

I also got the same error, but I was able to do it by pressing the F5 key.
Perhaps the Visual Studio editor is not yet fully support to the .qs file.
Namespace sharing does not seem to be working properly between .cs file and .qs file.
I was able to execute using your code in my development environment.
--
IDE: Visual Studio Community 2017 (Version 15.5.2)
Dev Kit: Microsoft Quantum Development Kit (0 and 1)

I engage the same problem in microsoft.quantum.development.kit/0.3.1811.203-preview version.
The BellTest operation cannot recognised by VSC Pic of VSCode
What I do is,
save all but keep VSCode open
go to directory and delete anything in bin/ obj/ by /bin/rm -rf bin obj
dotnet run
you go back to check VSCode, the BellTest recognised by VSC now.

Copy code to clipboard on build in Visual studio

I have an unusual situation here.
Problem
I'm using Visual studio (VS) to write scripts to use in-game in the game Space Engineers.
The problem is that you only use a portion of the code from the file in-game. (I.E, Ctrl+A wont do). So selecting the correct portion is tedious.
I want to streamline the process of copying the desired code in VS and pasting it in Space Engineers.
The idea is to trim all unnecessary white space (there's a character limit) and copy to clipboard when pressing run in VS.
Where I'm at
I've found that you can make your own build configuration and use the "Pre-build event command line" to run something custom. The idea is to make a simple console application that does what I described above. But I don't know how to get the correct file to send to said application.
Am I on the right track? How do I send the desired file to the trimming application? Is there a better way?
Edit:
This is what I had in mind when I said "simple console application".
It does everything I needed it to do (trimming white-space and adding a portion of the code to clipboard). Only thing missing is that I have to specify the file name I want it to use. Which isn't important, it would just be nice.
using System;
using System.Windows.Forms;
namespace TrimFileToClipboard
{
class Program
{
[STAThread()]
static void Main(string[] args)
{
string startString = (args.Length > 1) ? "#region " + args[1] : "#region in-game";
string line;
string trimmed = "";
bool read = false;
int depth = 0;
System.IO.StreamReader file = new System.IO.StreamReader(args[0]);
while ((line = file.ReadLine()) != null)
{
if (!read && line.Contains(startString)) read = true;
else if (read && line.Contains("#region")) depth++;
else if (read && line.Contains("#endregion"))
{
if (depth == 0) break;
else if (depth < 0)
{
Console.WriteLine("There's something wrong with your #regions. Please edit the file.");
Console.ReadLine();
Environment.Exit(0);
}
else depth--;
}
else if (read) trimmed += line.Trim() + "\n";
}
file.Close();
Clipboard.SetText(trimmed);
}
}
}
It can be used by adding
"<path>\TrimFileToClipboard.exe" "$(ProjectDir)<classname>.cs"
to Pre-build event command line, in the project properties/Build events. Where <path> is the path to the application above and <classname> is the file you want to process.
Maybe I should post this part as an answer but I don't know if it's a decent approach or an ugly hack.

Instead of coping the code to the clipboard, I save it directly inside the game as saved workshop script with this simple C# console application.
The SE script I edit using VS has the comments \\script-begin and \\script-end to tell the application where to look for the actual code that needs to be in the programmable block.
After the execution the script will be available at the local workshop. It makes it very easy to work with the SE scripts, whenever I make a change using VS, I run the console application again and the script will be updated inside the game.
internal class Program
{
private static void Main(string[] args)
{
String[] InputLines, outputLines;
Int32 scriptBegin = 0, scriptEnd = 0;
String scriptName = args[0];
String inputPath = "C:\\Users\\hfand\\source\\repos\\se-scripts\\" + scriptName + ".cs";
if (File.Exists(inputPath))
{
InputLines = File.ReadAllLines(inputPath);
for (int i = 0; i < InputLines.Length; i++)
{
if (InputLines[i].Contains("script-begin"))
{
scriptBegin = i + 1;
}
if (InputLines[i].Contains("script-end"))
{
scriptEnd = i - 1;
}
}
outputLines = new List<string>(InputLines).GetRange(scriptBegin, scriptEnd - scriptBegin + 1).ToArray();
for (int i = 0; i < outputLines.Length; i++)
{
if (outputLines[i].Length >= 8)
{
outputLines[i] = outputLines[i].Substring(8);
}
}
String outputPath = "C:\\Users\\hfand\\AppData\\Roaming\\SpaceEngineers\\IngameScripts\\local\\" + scriptName;
if (Directory.Exists(outputPath))
{
File.WriteAllLines(outputPath + "\\Script.cs", outputLines);
}
else
{
Directory.CreateDirectory(outputPath);
File.WriteAllLines(outputPath + "\\Script.cs", outputLines);
}
Console.WriteLine(scriptName + " sincronizado");
}
else
{
Console.WriteLine("Arquivo \"" + inputPath + "\" não encontrado");
}
}
}
Here is an example of how the code in VS should look like
using System;
using System.Text;
using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using VRageMath;
using VRage.Game;
using Sandbox.ModAPI.Interfaces;
using Sandbox.ModAPI.Ingame;
using Sandbox.Game.EntityComponents;
using VRage.Game.Components;
using VRage.Collections;
using VRage.Game.ObjectBuilders.Definitions;
using VRage.Game.ModAPI.Ingame;
using SpaceEngineers.Game.ModAPI.Ingame;
namespace BlankScript
{
public class Program : MyGridProgram
{
//script-begin
public Program()
{
}
public void Save()
{
}
public void Main(string argument, UpdateType updateSource)
{
}
//script-end
}
}

You can write a C# command with my Visual Commander extension that gets active file path in Visual Studio as DTE.ActiveWindow.Document.FullName and then runs your file.ReadLine() loop over it and calls Clipboard.SetText(trimmed) at the end. See for example Copy current file, line, method sample code.

Script Error when open .chm disappear when opening through the debugger

I get a number of script errors and none of the images will be shown when I open a .chm file on my computer. If I esc all error messages and refresh (twice) then the .chm is shown correctly. Although I need to do this for each new page.
I have made all recommended fixes for .chm files! Reregistrered, unblocked, fixed paths,... The errors is for all .chm on the machine
But, here is my real question, if I run this program, with a .chm file as argument, through the Visual Studio 2013 debugger then the .chm is shown correctly!
The problem is probably in my Windows configuration, but somehow the debugger "fixes" this error and get it to work. Does the debugger have it's own configuration that isn't dependent on the actual Windows configuration?
using System.Diagnostics;
namespace xcute
{
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
if (args.Length > 0)
{
string f = args[0];
Process.Start(f);
}
}
}
}
EDIT: Here are the error dialogs

I have found the problem (well sort of)!
If I open the .chm as administrator then everything works! So obviously I have some permission error on my computer. The reason it worked when I ran my program in the debugger is that Visual Studio is started as Administrator...
But since I'm a programmer I solved the issue by creating a small program that start hh.exe as admin. I get the UAC consent form but I can live with that.
// Anders
The program:
internal class Program
{
private static void Main(string[] args)
{
if (args.Length > 0)
{
Execute(args[0]);
}
}
private static void Execute(string chmFile)
{
const int ERROR_CANCELLED = 1223; //The operation was canceled by the user.
ProcessStartInfo info = new ProcessStartInfo(#"C:\Windows\hh.exe");
info.Arguments = chmFile;
info.UseShellExecute = true;
info.Verb = "runas";
try
{
Process.Start(info);
}
catch (Win32Exception ex)
{
if (ex.NativeErrorCode == ERROR_CANCELLED)
Console.WriteLine("Why you no select Yes?");
else
throw;
}
}
}