Passing command line arguments in Visual Studio 2010?

Question

I am working on a C project and can not figure out how to pass command line arguments to my main function in Visual Studio 2010 Express Edition. I want to debug - how do these command line arguments work?

Solution 1

• Right click your project in Solution Explorer and select Properties from the menu
• Go to Configuration Properties -> Debugging
• Set the Command Arguments in the property list.

Solution 2

Under Project->Properties->Debug, you should see a box for Command line arguments (This is in C# 2010, but it should basically be the same place)

Solution 3

Visual Studio 2015:

Project => Your Application Properties. Each argument can be separated using space. If you have a space in between for the same argument, put double quotes as shown in the example below.

        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            if(args == null || args.Length == 0)
            {
                Console.WriteLine("Please specify arguments!");
            }
            else
            {
                Console.WriteLine(args[0]);     // First
                Console.WriteLine(args[1]);     // Second Argument
            }
        }

Solution 4

1. Right click on Project Name.
2. Select Properties and click.
3. Then, select Debugging and provide your enough argument into Command Arguments box.

Note:

• Also, check Configuration type and Platform.

After that, Click Apply and OK.

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Comments

[Fahad]

Thankyou ! I picked the other guy's answer because he was the first one to answer !

[Rocket]

@Andrew Cooper and what if we have 2 argument ? do we need to seprate then with ; , and we set the path in the normal way like we did in c++ ?

[Andrew Cooper]

@Ahmad - No. Just type the arguments in like you would on the command line. ie. separated by spaces.

[Chris Zhang]

Is there any way to enter them into the terminal if it's run as a terminal application?

[Andrew Cooper]

@ChrisZhang I assume you mean a Console Application, and the answer is No.

[The Beast]

@Andrew Cooper Can you tell me plz how to pass multiple arguments in VS

[The Beast]

@AlexHart Can you tell me plz how to pass multiple arguments in VS ?

[Andrew Cooper]

@Frankenstein - Just add them as you would on the command line, separated by spaces

[The Beast]

@AndrewCooper yes that what i have done but i'm unable to run it under VS however i can run it from command line : please view stackoverflow.com/questions/35196376/…

[Andrew Cooper]

@alex yes. It's free-form text. It should be able to take any argument string you'd have on the command line