external .exe
 

hey, i'm new to visual basic, and was wondering what is the best way to run an external .exe file that I created from a Visual Basic program. I'm doing this purely for fun, and I've come across the Shell() function already, and it works, but does anyone know of other ways?

Re: external .exe
 

why don't you just use the code for the EXE in your own program?
look at system processes.

Re: external .exe
 

by this im guessing you mean basically just transposing the source code of my C program to Visual Basic? If thats it, then its because the program I wrote has a rather significant amount of computation within it, which C is better suited for, as opposed to the ease of use, organization, and creation of a sophisticated graphical interface quickly that Visual Basic has worked well for in the past for me. If thats not what you were saying, please correct me, but thank you for the response.

Either way, does anyone else have any other ideas? Thanks

Re: external .exe
 

You can wrap the functions you need in to a DLL and import them in the same way as windows api calls.

Re: external .exe
 

I'm sorry, my understanding was that both programs were written in VB. System.Processes should deal with starting and stopping current processes. If you need I can look up a program i made that would do this.

Re: external .exe
 

No, that's alright, but thank you for the effort. I'm still working on learning Visual Basic, and only recently started, so I imagine if nothing else I will come across other ways at some point. Either way, there is the Shell() command, which does the job, if rather inelegantly.

Still, thank you for the responses