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KPS Script FilesHow to use KPS script files to automate KeePass 2.x. |
KPS script files are a lot more powerful than single command operations, but are also more complicated. You need to have heavy experience in C# programming and the KeePass 2.x internals. Within KPS files you can do everything that KeePass does.
What are KPS files?
KPS files are C# files that are loaded,
compiled and executed by the KPScript.exe
program.
Within the script file, you got full access to the KeePass internals.
The main differences to "normal" C# files are:
using
directives.Main()
. The
complete script file is embedded in a static class.Here's the famous Hello World program as KPS script:
public static void Main() { MessageService.ShowInfo("Hello World!"); }
For the most important namespaces, KPScript automatically adds
using
directives at the start of the file before compiling it.
MessageService
for example is located in KeePassLib.Utility
,
but as it's included automatically by KPScript, you can use it directly.
Executing a KPS file:
To run a KPS file, you simply pass it to KPScript:
KPScript.exe C:\KeePass\MyScriptFile.kps
It is important that the file extension is .kps
, otherwise KPScript won't
recognize the file and will interpret it as database for single command operations.