AppWinStyle.Hide does not hide the .exe

[SpagettiProg]

Hi everyone,


I'm writing a service that will take care of administrative things.
I'm using the summation object model, but when I launch ws32.exe(this is the summation app) AppWinStyle.Hide does not hide the summation UI.

I need summation to be running to take advantage of it's object model, yet I don't want the UI.

Any other way, other than

Shell(sumPath, AppWinStyle.Hide, True, -1)

that I can really hide the UI.


Thanks

[jmcilhinney]

Don't use Shell in .NET apps. Use Process.Start.

Dim psi As New ProcessStartInfo("file path here")
 
        psi.CreateNoWindow = True
        'Set other properties if required.
 
        Dim myProc As Process = Process.Start(psi)

You don't have to keep the Process reference returned by Process.Start but if you do it will allow you to manipulate it to a certain degree, like shut it down later on.

[SpagettiProg]

Sorry I did not reply sooner. This helped alot.
Thanks!