Two big problems!

[MrNorth]

I have merged from vb6 to vb.net and I have two problems I haven't yet found a solution to... here they come:

1) How do I do ShellExecute() in vb.net? This is crucial to one of my deployed apps as well as future development...

2) How do I change the default printer in vb.net? For this I also have a working solution.


kind regards
Henrik

[Lunatic3]

1. ShellExecute: You can still you Shell function in VB.NET, however you may use process instead:

Dim pr As New Process(), s As String
Try
    s = "C:\myapp.exe"
    pr.Start(s)
Catch ex As System.Exception
    MessageBox.Show(ex.Message)
End Try

2. Do you mean changing the default printer of Windows or the default printer that your application will use?

[MrNorth]

Can you please show an example how to print by using vb.net instead of shellexecute-print? I want to pass a pdf and print it by using acrobat reader (e.g. the registered COM app with .pdf files)

it is the default printer in windows.. this is easy to change in vb6...

kind regards
Henrik

[Pirate]

ms-help://MS.VSCC/MS.MSDNVS/cpref/html/frlrfsystemdrawingprintingprintdocumentclasstopic.htm

this is the address in MSDN Documentation which shows you how to print a file .