Running An External EXE Inside My Program
Oct 11, 2009
What I'm wanting to do is gonna sound pretty strange. I play a game called Wonderland Online. Usually while playing, I will have between 3-4 instances of the game going at the same time, each instance running a different character. Also, I will have open another program that I wrote that helps me figure out what I need to manufacture a certain item in the game. The running game is an 800x600 window, and I have all 5 of these windows open at once, where I am constantly moving things around, minimizing and maximizing.I want to create a app that would basically be a frame for the game. Creating the frame would not be hard, but this is the first time I have tried to get an external EXE to basically run inside of my program. Is this even possible? And if so, I would imagine I could run multiple EXEs and flip between them inside my frame. I could integrate my manufacturing program into the frame, as well as control which instance of the game is visible inside the frame.
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Jan 26, 2010
Some time ago I saw a code to host an exe from within a visual basic form, acting as its parent. How would I go about doing this in vb.net? I havent programmed in ages, but recently have gotten an interest again in order to complement
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Jul 7, 2011
Is it possible to run a external program/process example notepad in thread of you vb application?
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Jan 21, 2010
I am in process of writing a setup program that will reside in a USB stick.After inserting the Stick the VB2008E program starts (dont know how) and guides the technician to do certain tasks. As a part of this She/He needs to run a Setup.exe that resides in the same USB stick.
1- How do I define the drive letter of this USB stick.
2- How do I run the x:Setup.exe program without exiting the VB2008? The install process should begin after click of a button.
3- Would Autorun work on USB drives to run the program automaticaly?
4- How do I compile to make a single EXE file at the end?
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Jul 15, 2010
I'm trying to run the "Shell" command in a VB.NET project, to execute an external file. For example: Shell("c: empmyfile.txt").
For some reason this throwing a "file not found" exception, yet the file is there. Now I've looked around and found that others recommend using the "System.Diagnostics.Process" method, which does work, however I don't want the file to run in-process, which is what that does.
I want to run the file out of process, so that when my program ends, the executed program keeps running independently. Hence my attempt to use Shell() but it refuses to work.
Is there another way besides Shell() to run a file out of process?
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Jan 12, 2011
Had this matter on Xp machine and visual studio 2010 ultimate after windows update between december and january: even the simplest windows form program crash on start when starting for debug (inside Ide, F5) unless putting breakpoints on each line of the autogenerated (and marked as "debugger step thorugh") code.(see: [URL]) I was wondering if this matter affects only Xp machines, or if someone with Seven or Vista had same matter.
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Aug 16, 2010
i am creating a visual basic program, which acts as a very simple GUI for another program. I have built the whole Visual Basic project, but i am unable to do one part, the most important part you could say.I have a button(button1) on a form, when the button is clicked, i want it to run a program, named 'mover.exe' which is located in the SAME FOLDER that my visual basic program will run from. The directory of this folder will change. So, there are two problems..i have:
1 - to make the program run the .exe program when button1 is clicked (it also must be run with administrative privelages).
2 - to make the program always look for 'mover.exe' in the folder in which it is started from.
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Aug 25, 2011
Well i have developed VB code in which i want to call an external application.I know this can be done using shell command i.e.
" shell("C:\abc.exe") ". But when i execute this statement the file actually runs.This is not what i am looking for, I am looking for a piece of code which ensures that the file can run successfully without executing it
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Jan 9, 2012
I need to open some external applications such as notepad.exe inside the VB.NET MDI form, and also I need to make sure that there is exactly only one copy of this running always.[code]....
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Apr 9, 2009
Whats up all I've recently been working with the MDI options in vb.net but I have a question. Is there away to open external applications inside of the MDI application. What I mean is Taking command prompt for example and opening it withing my MDI app. It only shows the file in my app and not on the taskbar. Can I do it or no?
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Feb 27, 2012
We have an existing VB.net application. Upon an event, we need to open a browser window. I'm able to open the browser window like this:
System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("http://s3web01/suggestions?item=" + strItem + "&co=" + strOrder)
Upon another event, we need to refresh the browser window with different parameters for strItem and strOrder.
If I call the same code above, it opens a new tab in the browser window. Is there any way to refresh the same browser window that was previously opened?
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Aug 16, 2010
I am creating a visual basic program, which acts as a very simple GUI for another program. I have built the whole Visual Basic project, but I am unable to do one part, the most important part you could say. I have a button (button1) on a form, when the button is clicked, I want it to run a program, named 'mover.exe' which is located in the SAME FOLDER that my visual basic program will run from. The directory of this folder will change. So, there are two problems I have:
1 - To make the program run the .exe program when button1 is clicked (it also must be run with administrative privileges).
2 - To make the program always look for 'mover.exe' in the folder in which it is started from.
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Jan 9, 2010
I need to manipulate an external edit control from with in my program. (IE: Get new text whenver it's being enter into edit control and parse the infomation in my program).So, is it possible to create an edit control in my program that base on the handle of an existing application using win32 api or something
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Nov 17, 2009
I have a number of msgbox's I only want to be displayed if I'm debugging (running inside the IDE)
Is it possible to raise a flag as such:
If RunningInsideIDE=True then
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Feb 3, 2012
i have a problem with SetEnviroment function in VB.net. i have a small program created with vb.net and want to communicate with batch file changing the environment variables but as I mentioned in the below sample code is not running clear and while run.bat is running there is no effect inside batch file What might be the problem?
[Code]...
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Dec 19, 2008
I have a FPS game i built using FPS creator that works fine but i want to run it inside my form. Like so for example:
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Apr 1, 2010
I know i can run webforms and mvc views in seperate files, but i want to run the web server control output and events in/on the mvc view page, however, i keep getting this compiler error:
Line 38: <CuteWebUI:Uploader ID="UploadPic" runat="server" UploadType="IFrame"
Line 39: FileTooLargeMsg="{0} cannot be uploaded! File size ({1}) is too large. The maximum file size allowed is set to: {2}."
Line 40: TempDirectory="~/UserData/Images/TemporaryImages" UploadingMsg="Uploading..."
[code]....
i don't know what else do do, it just wont recognize the control name when im writing the event signature, right after the "handles" keyword, comes the server control name and then a dot, and then the event name, but as events its just giving me "Me", "MyBase" and "MyClass" options to run events for... doesn't let me access "FileUpload.OnFileUploaded" which is the control name & event name i want to write the sub routine method declaration (and subsequently method) and signature for.
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Nov 17, 2011
One of the features of my new Vb game is the ability to modularly add and remove in-game items. However, in order to add these items I figure their effects should be recorded in code in the text file they will be stored in.In short, I want to store code in a text file and then have it run on command
Furthermore, is there a way I could put all of the code on one line?
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May 5, 2012
is it possible by 1 program to save settings to another program without running the program that is being edited?
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Dec 19, 2010
getting a DoCmd.RunMacro method for running macros inside EXCEL and Word?
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Jan 20, 2010
I want to prevent my program from running when it is already running.How can I do that in my vb2008 Code?
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May 3, 2009
So I have my form, I add one combobox (combobox1) and a button that says "Launch..."Button 1's
Process.Start(ComboBox1.SelectedItem)
When you select a program from the combobox (combobox1) and click launch, it launches that program, for example, cmd.exe (command prompt) when I click the button, it launches the command prompt, but if I select a game (for example chess.exe, for vista), it says it can't find the file, this is because the search for the file is only: WindowsSystem32, how can I change that? OR, how can I add a reference that searches the WHOLE Disk, not just WindowsSystem32?
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Feb 27, 2010
im having trouble getting my program to call an external application. the only thing is that im trying to get the path from a setting
my.settings.e1p
so far i've tried this
System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(My.Settings.e1p)
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Jun 29, 2009
I am using VB 2005. I am trying to open an external program, make it invisible, and then control it. It is fine if the external program shows up in the Windows Task Manager, but I don't want anything showing up in the Windows taskbar. I already know how to open the program I want to use. For that I am using:
Code:
System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("C:Program FilesSomeProgram.exe")
[code]....
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Dec 25, 2010
I start an external Program using System.Diagnostics.Process.Start I want monitoring when a user has started a new file, saves or opens another file and get the info of the file in current process
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Jun 6, 2012
I wrote this VB program to be able to throw a device we developed into programming mode where we use an ATMEL Flip installer to upload new firmware. I can program one device after another running the application off of Visual Studio Express 2010 or Visual Studio 2010, but when I go to publish this file and run it on another machine, it becomes unstable and crashes after each upload. On those same computers if I run the raw unpackaged program under Visual Studio Express, the system does not crash, and I can program devices repeatedly.
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Jun 8, 2009
So, I'm using shell to start up an external application at the press of a button, but the application requires several other external files with it in order for it to work. How could I make it work? Note: I'm a newbie
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Apr 4, 2012
i am trying to get some text form an external program. Currently i am using this code:
Dim lngHWND As Long
Dim lngHWNDF As Long
Dim lngID As Long
[Code]....
I am getting values for both the lngHWND, lngHWNDF and the lngChild. However, they are only values (numbers) and not the text itself.
Here is an image of the program i am trying to get the text from:
How can i go about getting the text from those items it finds?
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May 31, 2010
i wanna know how to launch an external program as administrator Like tick a tick box and it launchs the program as admin if you tick it and push the button.
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Aug 4, 2011
i have an external program, i got his and w.e else is needed.... i want to know how do i tick a checkbox from my vb.net program. to this external software. to tick this checkbox and then the checkbox will do what it supposed to do, and not just change the gui to ticked without doing a thing,
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