Executing a console Application (.EXE File) from a VB 6 DLL

[er_panita]

Hello... I'm a complete newbie when it comes to VB 6 and i need to execute a Console Apoplication develped under Visual Studio Net using C#. I also need to wait for the execution to finish it and capture the return code of it in order to perform some other actions.

Thanks a lot in advance

[DRI66]

Hello,

We would like to help you , but can you be a Little more precise ?

Thank you

Best Regards,
Didier.

[er_panita]

Sure... I'm working in a CRM Platform named Pivotal. I wrotea couple of Console Applications in C# in Visual studio Net which are used to send formatted e-mails and print to disk crystal reports in several diferent formats, such as PDF, HTML, etc.

In order to execute those console applications, pivotal needs a DLL registered in the windows Register with a particular key, so I made a new DLL in C# that does that exactly. This DLL only has a method which receives two strings as imput args, the path & file name of the console application i need to execute, and another string that has all the input arguments that that console needs. Is a generic Console Louncher. However, pivotal doesn't recognizes .NET DLLs, so I'm forced to create a VB6 console Launcher in order to execute those apps.

I'll paste the code used in the C# console launcher, which only important things is that it has to wait until the end o the application execution before returning control to the OS.

using System;
using System.Diagnostics;
using System.ComponentModel;


namespace ConsoleLauncherLib
{
	/// <summary>
	/// Summary description for Class1.
	/// </summary>
	public class ConsoleLauncherLib
	{
		public ConsoleLauncherLib()
		{
			//
			// TODO: Add constructor logic here
			//
		}
		public static int execConsole(string ubicacion, string argumentos)
		{
			ProcessStartInfo _procesoInfo = new ProcessStartInfo(ubicacion,argumentos);
			_procesoInfo.WindowStyle = ProcessWindowStyle.Hidden;
			Process _proceso = Process.Start(_procesoInfo);
			_proceso.WaitForExit();
			int x = _proceso.ExitCode;
			return x;
		}
	}
}

Thanks a lot for any help you can give me . I'm still trying to figure how to create a sub function for this

[er_panita]

So... doesn't anyone has a solution for this? I'm really in a tight spot here