Opening another application

[JenniferGraceR]

I have been trying to open an external application from VB using the following code:

Dim shellProgram As String
Dim res
shellProgram = “c:\put file name in here"
res = Shell(shellProgram,vbNormalFocus)
End Sub

It keeps saying "No file found"... my application is not an exe extention, it is ICO (whatever that is). Does anyone know what I can do... please help!

[venkatraman_r]

Hi,

I really dont think that you would be able to open an icon file using shell command. Did u tried it with the image/picture control??Even then i dont think that u would be ableto get what u want?



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[Chris]

Hope this can solve your problem.

Dim shellProgram As String
Dim ShellFile as string
Dim res
shellProgram = "C:\Windows\Notepad.exe"
shellFile = "c:\text1.text"
res = Shell(shellProgram & " " & shellFile,vbNormalFocus)
End Sub

The above example is open text file, so you need to find an application that can open *Ico file type and put it into the shellProgram.

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[This message has been edited by Chris (edited 02-22-2000).]

[This message has been edited by Chris (edited 02-22-2000).]

[JenniferGraceR]

Thankyou! duh that I didnt know ICO was an Icon file!