Opening An EXE in VB

psman · 05-26-2005, 04:27 PM

Hello

Does any one know a way load an external .exe from the VB code

Thanks

Babbage · 06-01-2005, 02:53 PM

What version of VB are you using?

psman · 06-02-2005, 05:00 AM

VB 6

psman · 06-02-2005, 05:04 AM

I found the shell command but its bit strange some applications opened with it just get stuck

Babbage · 06-02-2005, 08:55 AM

Thats cool.

For VB6, you might want to look into the ShellExecute command. I think that one works a little better than the Shell command. You can find out about all the parameters and Constants here:

http://www.mentalis.org/apilist/ShellExecute.shtml

They go into pretty good detail as well as giving an example of how to use it.

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