running app from server

[PDough]

I am new to VB, and just wondering if anyone has any ideas here...

I am trying to write a webpage (maybe some ASP) that has a clickable menu system to launch a series of home-grown applications. I want every .exe to reside on the server, and the user should be able to run and interact with the program w/o downloading the file locally.

Would I need to use an ActiveX control for this purpose, or how else would I do it?

Any help would be appreciated...thanks.

Mike

[Clunietp]

Hey Mike

This works for me:

<%@Language=VBScript%>
<% option explicit

dim objShell

set objShell = server.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")

objShell.Run("calc.exe")

set objShell = nothing

%>

be careful with this though, each time the page is executed a new instance of your app will be launched. I tried to use the task manager to kill the process and it said "access denied", even after I restarted the IIS services.....


Tom