Creating a CD Menu program

[greg_quinn]

I am creating an app that will start when my program CD is inserted. It will give the user a menu, with a selection of programs to install.

I am using a label control for each link in the menu. Now what I need to do is execute a specific .exe file on the disk when a certain label is clicked...

I have tried

Private Sub Label1_Click(...) Handles Label1.Click
Shell("myexe.exe")
End Sub

But it says the file cannot be found, even though the .exe is sitting in the same folder as my CD menu .exe

What would be the correct way to call this .exe file?

[brown monkey]

it's process.start()

[salvelinus]

To which you'd need to import System.Diagnostics, or qualify Process.Start with same.

[<ABX]

Just so you know the autorun will be 100% useless unless the computer its running on has the .Net Framework

[greg_quinn]

Eh, I disagree,

All one needs is an autorun.inf in their CD folder.

That is a windows api thing, and nothing to do with the framework

[wossname]

No, ABX means that the autorun will try to trigger a program that won't run without the framework. Not even if you put it on the CD (i think)

[<ABX]

Yes.... Thats what i meant....

You would need to have another program (writen in c++ or a language that does not require runtimes, check for the framework and if it exists launch the vb.net Autorun menu, if not launch the .Net Framework setup)

[greg_quinn]

What about a small.exe made with Visual Studio.NET in VB.NET?

Surely for the .exe to work you don't need the .NET framework installed?

[<ABX]

a Simple

Msgbox ("Hello world")

WILL NOT WORK AT ALL

without the .Net Framework

nothing will.

[salvelinus]

If you develop in .Net, it will not run w/o the framework.