Debug AppV package by opening a command prompt

Open a command prompt and then run the following:

SFTMIME QUERY OBJ:APP /SHORT
IT999 2.3
TTEditor 7.1
Paris 3.7

SFTTRAY /EXE cmd.exe /LAUNCH "Paris 3.7"

This will launch the cmd.exe in the package.

Nice.

Creating a batch file that accepts parameters

We are App-V'ing a bunch of our applications and one of the applications requires a different .ini file depending if it's test, production or training.  To get around creating 3 different packages with just a single file, I've written a pre-launch batch file that will auto-create the .ini depending on the parameters passed to it.

:===========================================================================================

:         Paris Pre-launch script for App-V

:         By Trentent Tye

:         2012-10-24

:

:

:         This command file will take numerous parameters for launching the specific type

:         of Paris application.  It will autogenerate an INI file that Paris uses on

:         launch to self configure.  If no parameter is passed, it's assumed to be

:         commented out in the INI file.

: 

:         This file should be launched like so:

:         paris.cmd PARA request=0 hostname=nice servergroup=development_3861

:

:         it will automatically find the variable without an equal sign and assume

:         that it is the alias.  Everything else gets matched up to the [Host]

:         section of the .ini

:1) Pull string off the command line

:2) filter out " and '

:3) break each set out by spaces

:4) save to temp file

:5) iterate through temp file (for) and create variables.

@ECHO OFF

ECHO Launching Paris

SET PARAMS=%*

:NOTE: We are replacing quotations with whitespace characters!  Ensure there is no

:whitespace in the parameters, but whitespace *between* parameters.

call set PARAMS=%%PARAMS:"= %%

call set PARAMS=%%PARAMS:'= %%

ECHO %PARAMS%

:Break each set of parameters into it's own set seperated by the equals sign.

:If there is no parameter stored we "breakout"

for /f "tokens=1-26 delims= " %%A IN ("%PARAMS%") DO (

IF '%%A' EQU '' GOTO BREAKOUT

ECHO %%A > "%TEMP%\variables.txt"

IF '%%B' EQU '' GOTO BREAKOUT

ECHO %%B >> "%TEMP%\variables.txt"

IF '%%C' EQU '' GOTO BREAKOUT

ECHO %%C >> "%TEMP%\variables.txt"

IF '%%D' EQU '' GOTO BREAKOUT

ECHO %%D >> "%TEMP%\variables.txt"

IF '%%E' EQU '' GOTO BREAKOUT

ECHO %%E >> "%TEMP%\variables.txt"

IF '%%F' EQU '' GOTO BREAKOUT

ECHO %%F >> "%TEMP%\variables.txt"

IF '%%G' EQU '' GOTO BREAKOUT

ECHO %%G >> "%TEMP%\variables.txt"

IF '%%H' EQU '' GOTO BREAKOUT

ECHO %%H >> "%TEMP%\variables.txt"

IF '%%I' EQU '' GOTO BREAKOUT

ECHO %%I >> "%TEMP%\variables.txt"

IF '%%J' EQU '' GOTO BREAKOUT

ECHO %%J >> "%TEMP%\variables.txt"

IF '%%K' EQU '' GOTO BREAKOUT

ECHO %%K >> "%TEMP%\variables.txt"

IF '%%L' EQU '' GOTO BREAKOUT

ECHO %%L >> "%TEMP%\variables.txt"

)

:BREAKOUT

:Now we iterate through the temp file and auto-create the Paris.ini

for /f "tokens=1-2 delims==" %%A IN ('TYPE "%TEMP%\variables.txt"') DO (

IF /I '%%A' EQU 'REQUEST' set REQUEST=%%B

IF /I '%%A' EQU 'OBJECTNAME' set OBJECTNAME=%%B

IF /I '%%A' EQU 'HOSTNAME' set HOSTNAME=%%B

IF /I '%%A' EQU 'REQUESTBROKER' set REQUESTBROKER=%%B

IF /I '%%A' EQU 'RequestBrokerBackup' set RequestBrokerBackup=%%B

IF /I '%%A' EQU 'ServerGroup' set ServerGroup=%%B

IF /I '%%B' EQU '' set ALIAS=%%A

)

:Now that we have all the parameters for the ini file we can create it.

SET PARISPATH="%TEMP%\paris.ini"

ECHO [PreLogin] >"%PARISPATH%"

ECHO ClientDLL=STAPPClientLogin >>"%PARISPATH%"

ECHO FunctionName=DoLogin >>"%PARISPATH%"

ECHO ServerDLL=STServerLogin >>"%PARISPATH%"

ECHO DataModule=Login >>"%PARISPATH%"

ECHO. >>"%PARISPATH%"

ECHO [PostLogin] >>"%PARISPATH%"

ECHO ServerDLL=STSRVLogin >>"%PARISPATH%"

ECHO DataModule=Login >>"%PARISPATH%"

ECHO. >>"%PARISPATH%"

ECHO [Timer] >>"%PARISPATH%"

ECHO Enabled=0 >>"%PARISPATH%"

ECHO Interval=10000 >>"%PARISPATH%"

ECHO. >>"%PARISPATH%"

ECHO [Host] >>"%PARISPATH%"

if /I "%REQUEST%" EQU "" ECHO #Request=0 >>"%PARISPATH%"

if /I "%REQUEST%" NEQ "" ECHO Request=%REQUEST% >>"%PARISPATH%"

if /I "%OBJECTNAME%" EQU "" ECHO #objectname=I4AppServer >>"%PARISPATH%"

if /I "%OBJECTNAME%" NEQ "" ECHO objectname=%OBJECTNAME% >>"%PARISPATH%"

if /I "%HOSTNAME%" EQU "" ECHO #hostname=AComputerName >>"%PARISPATH%"

if /I "%HOSTNAME%" NEQ "" ECHO hostname=%HOSTNAME% >>"%PARISPATH%"

if /I "%REQUESTBROKER%" EQU "" ECHO #RequestBroker=AComputerName >>"%PARISPATH%"

if /I "%REQUESTBROKER%" NEQ "" ECHO RequestBroker=%REQUESTBROKER% >>"%PARISPATH%"

if /I "%RequestBrokerBackup%" EQU "" ECHO #RequestBrokerBackup=AnotherComputerName >>"%PARISPATH%"

if /I "%RequestBrokerBackup%" NEQ "" ECHO RequestBrokerBackup=%RequestBrokerBackup% >>"%PARISPATH%"

if /I "%ServerGroup%" EQU "" ECHO #ServerGroup=AnotherComputerName >>"%PARISPATH%"

if /I "%ServerGroup%" NEQ "" ECHO ServerGroup=%ServerGroup% >>"%PARISPATH%"

ECHO. >>"%PARISPATH%"

ECHO [Settings] >>"%PARISPATH%"

ECHO MaxLookup=200 >>"%PARISPATH%"

ECHO NotifyInterval=30000 >>"%PARISPATH%"

ECHO #Interval between refresh of InBox screen (1second=1000) >>"%PARISPATH%"

ECHO Helpfile=paris1.chm >>"%PARISPATH%"

:ADD COPY COMMAND

:ADD LAUNCH COMMAND

:copy /y "%PARISPATH%" "B:\In4tek_Paris_37_MNT\Paris\bin\STAPPParisShellDCOM.INI"

ECHO "B:\In4tek_Paris_37_MNT\Paris\bin\STAPPParisShellDCOM.exe -alias %ALIAS%

type "%PARISPATH%"