shell command in vb 6.0 what in vb.net

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dear all,

I want to run an exe from my vb.net windows form what is replacement of shell command(in vb 6.0) in vb.net

help appreciated !!

thanks & regards

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[Pirate]

Simply this ,

Process.Start("notepad.exe")

[Andy]

actually, the "shell" command works too. Is it better to use the process.start?

[Pirate]

Originally posted by thephantom
actually, the "shell" command works too. Is it better to use the process.start?

Ofcourse , what better is , it's using managed code and no damn API .

[But_Why]

That code works fine if you are using an application for the filename. If you want to, say, open an excel file, with only the filename of the excel file, then this would be better

        Dim ss As Process
        ss.StartInfo.FileName = theExcelFileName
        ss.StartInfo.UseShellExecute = True
        ss.StartInfo.RedirectStandardOutput = False
        ss.Start()

[Kasracer]

Originally posted by But_Why
That code works fine if you are using an application for the filename. If you want to, say, open an excel file, with only the filename of the excel file, then this would be better

        Dim ss As Process
        ss.StartInfo.FileName = theExcelFileName
        ss.StartInfo.UseShellExecute = True
        ss.StartInfo.RedirectStandardOutput = False
        ss.Start()

How would that work better? I can send "business.xls" (I'm not sure of the excel extension, lets pretend it is .xls if I am wrong) to Process.Start() and it opens the file into excel.

[PT Exorcist]

I think it's goin to lead to the same

[Pirate]

Originally posted by But_Why
That code works fine if you are using an application for the filename. If you want to, say, open an excel file, with only the filename of the excel file, then this would be better

        Dim ss As Process
        ss.StartInfo.FileName = theExcelFileName
        ss.StartInfo.UseShellExecute = True
        ss.StartInfo.RedirectStandardOutput = False
        ss.Start()

It's the same but longer , better to use the static Process class with only one line of code .

[PPCC]

thank u genious

regards

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