Visual Basic EASY help

Viral · Post by **Viral** » Thu Feb 09, 2006 8:51 pm

Hey!

I'm starting to work with VB 2005.

I've got the design thing figured out, but I'm making myself a little APP that will boot up ANY applicaation that I desire.

When I press a button, it will launch: Simple.

Anyone Can Help..?

Tural · Post by **Tural** » Thu Feb 09, 2006 9:11 pm

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Shell(Application Path)

Viral · Post by **Viral** » Thu Feb 09, 2006 9:17 pm

ok, so, that's perfect.

Where is the file path?

like...C://Program Files/ece/ecsw/ec?

I want all the apps INCLUDED in the application

EDIT: I got this from a tutorial here:

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Process.Start("directory it will be in.exe")

What's the directory:: IF I wanted all the applications included in the program, where would the dir be? where do I put the applications?

Tural · Post by **Tural** » Thu Feb 09, 2006 9:46 pm

I'm not sure about VB2005, but in VB6 it was like this:

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Shell(App.Path & "\Apps\DotHalo.exe")

Dothalo is an example, but App.Path is what you would want, so it would be wherever the Application is, and then Apps directory, then DotHalo.exe

Viral · Post by **Viral** » Thu Feb 09, 2006 10:02 pm

Ok, i'll try this, and update later.

ALSO: I'm adding a progress bar, to show the loading time. Is there a code for that?

(so when the user clicks the app, the progress bar shows the loading time)

Viral · Post by **Viral** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 2:50 pm

Ok, HUGE goodness

I've got a button setup for DotHalo!

I've got the following code:

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Process.Start("/apps/dothalo/DotHalo.exe")

I've got the dir's all lined up, NO problems there, but it's not executing dothalo.

I want it to launch from my VB .exe.

Any suggestions :\?

I can't get this working.

Correct my code?

L · Post by L » Fri Feb 10, 2006 3:00 pm

How would you make it turn of your computer? what code?

Viral · Post by **Viral** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 3:04 pm

w...what?

Here is my delemia:

I have a VB .exe file I just made, which has a button linking to DotHalo.

Here is my code:

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Process.Start("/apps/dothalo/DotHalo.exe")

so, when the user clicks the button, it starts up the application, DotHalo. However, when Itried this out, it didn't work, giving me an error. I checked my dir, and everything is good.

My .exe Dir:

- = Folder

:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
vbproject.exe
-apps
--dothalo
---DotHalo.exe
:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::

Can someone help me out?

the code again:

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Process.Start("/apps/dothalo/DotHalo.exe")