works in vs 2008 but not outside

[frenchface]

So my vb program works inside of vs 2008 with the code below but when i build it and put it in windows home server it crashes. The problem is with the if statement. If i take it out the program works just fine. the if statement searches the output from the shell.

            

schedule = "SCHTASKS /Create /SC " & Often & " /RU Administrator /RP " & password & " /ST " & TextTime.Text & ":00" & " /TN " & title & " /TR " & path & " > C:\copypal\slogs\" & title & ".txt"
      
            Shell("cmd /c" & schedule, vbHide)

Dim sFileBuffer As String, sSearchValue As String, bValueExists As String
         sSearchValue = "SUCCESS:" 'Value you are searching for
            Dim oFile2 As System.IO.File
            Dim oRead2 As System.IO.StreamReader
            Dim keyread As String
            oRead2 = oFile2.OpenText("C:\copypal\slogs\" & title & ".txt")
            sFileBuffer = oRead2.ReadToEnd()
           

 If InStr(1, sFileBuffer, sSearchValue, vbTextCompare) <> 0 Then
            MsgBox(title & " has sucessfully been saved.")
            Else
            MsgBox(title & " failed. Please view the log located at C:\copypal\slogs\" & title & ".txt")
            End If

[Shaggy Hiker]

What error message are you getting?

[frenchface]

I am not getting an error, it crashes.

[Shaggy Hiker]

It crashes without an error message? I don't think I have ever seen that. What does it do?

[frenchface]

this is an add-in for the windows home server console. First the console freezes then closes. thats it no error prompts. no telling me there was a problem

[frenchface]

I am wondering if it is taking too long to create the output from the shell. then the if statement is looking for a file that is not there so it freezes

[frenchface]

how could i have the vb pause between the shell and the if?

[Shaggy Hiker]

Very nice. It must be quietly absorbing the error without giving you any hint. There are sound reasons to do that, especially for some services, but it can certainly make debugging kind of interesting, as you have to guess at the problem.

I see no error handling in the code that you posted. What I would do would be to wrap the whole thing in a Try...Catch block and either use a messagebox to show the error message, or, since you might not want messageboxes popping up, write the error to a log file. One way or another, you really need to get the message from the exception or you will mostly be groping in the dark.