Running An External .exe
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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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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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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Jul 7, 2011
Is it possible to run a external program/process example notepad in thread of you vb application?
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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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Feb 3, 2012
I wanted to know if it is possible to Zip a folder without any external dll nor any external references - just with native features.I've been able to Zip files with System.IO.Packaging, but it does not include folders and I cannot tell it to Zip the parent folder.I know there are external dll and so, but I'd like to know if it's possible to make it from a native way.
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Apr 24, 2010
I had done one application using api which send the message to given number. The working of software is very fine without any error working on windows XP SP2. I heard that vista already contain the .net frame work so didnt installed .net frame work in machine. I checked in vista it shows .net frame work is in machine. But when same code i tried to run on Vista it gives the error. Error is as follows
See the end of this message for details on invoking
just-in-time (JIT) debugging instead of this dialog box.
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System.AccessViolationException: Attempted to read or write protected memory. This is often an indication that other memory is corrupt.
at SmsSendingApplication.frmSingleMessage.InternetOpenUrl(Int64 hInternetSession, String& lpszUrl, String& lpszHeaders, Int64 dwHeadersLength, Int64 dwFlags, Int64
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Jun 4, 2011
what account for this error message in ls beta 2?'' The last change wasn't successfully persisted.Please shot down the running application.
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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 7, 2009
I am trying to write a Windows Script that will allow me to monitor the following: That 2 x seperate but specific processes within Component Services "Running Processes" list are currently running and have not reset within the past hour. If I already know the PID, then I can retrieve the CreationDate (I assume which I can use to check for restarts? or is this the actual process creation/installation date) for each specific process, however if a restart occurs the PID will change and my script needs to know what the new PID is without me telling it!
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Aug 27, 2010
We have a windows service running under a network account that calls and runs an ActiveX exe. The exe is running under the local system account, not the network account of the service.
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Jan 14, 2011
I have on timer thread that needs to pass every time a different data to another running thread to make the calculations.
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Jul 7, 2011
Is it possible to run a ( external program/process ) in a thread of your vb application?
so you don't see the process in taskmgr?
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Oct 1, 2010
im working in a windows app that execute another apps.. writing the name of the app in a text box (i.e firefox.exe) and click enter to run it im using >> (System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(app_name.Text)) to run apps it works fine with me .. but it didnt with some apps like when I write for example ares.exe it says:Win32Exciption was unhandled :The system cannot find the file specified
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Jun 9, 2010
There are tons of examples of how to access the process environment block (PEB) from C++ code but I'm wanting to do it from VB.NET and am seriously struggling.I call NtQueryInformationProcess and get a Process_Basic_Information structure back from that which has a member named PebBaseAddress and this holds a pointer to the PEB (I have verified that this member does hold a valid pointer at runtime). The problem is that when I try to read data from the address that this pointer references I just get nothing. One important thing to mention is that it works fine if I try to use it on my own process, its just when I try and read the PEB for an external process that it gives me no data. I've enabled the SeDebugPrivilege (and confirmed it is enabled for my process in Process Explorer) but this made no difference. I've also tested it on Windows XP x86 as I'm currently testing on Windows 7 x64 but XP had the exact same issue, only sometimes the XP one would just crash completely with a memory access violation and thats the other thing, I am getting fairly inconsistent results - even on the Windows 7 machine sometimes I end up with no data but other times I get memory access violation errors, and other times I get the data for my process even when I have passed in the handle of a different process..
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Apr 1, 2012
I want to develop a function that will return the external [public] IP from my router.
Not the Internal [local] IP, something like 192.168.1.X.
But something like this 216.XXX.XXX.XXX
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Oct 3, 2009
I have a quick, yet simple (i think?) question. How can i use the address bar to send commands to a external application?
Example:
AOL Instant Messenger I havent used this application in a long time. But i remembered if you wanted to add a friend to AIM from their online profile it directed them to a link such as:
aim:addfriend=contactID and AIM would pick this up and add it the contactID to the application. The link i posted is more than likely not the correct link they use but it shows what im trying to accomplish.
Im looking to achieve something along the lines of: myApplication:command=commandValue
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Nov 27, 2009
I have a dll file which is reading a in.txt file and write a out.txt file. No need pass any variables to dll. Dll file runs alone.
I could not add this dll as referance. What I nned to do to just run this dll?
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Dec 17, 2011
I'm creating an installer program. As part of the install process, I need to run/install the "AccessRuntime.exe" file.
How do I run this external EXE file from within my installer program?
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Oct 28, 2009
I have a visual basic file with a number of functions I want to use inside my XSL. I can build it as a dll and reference in my XSL project but I don't know how to reference it in my XSL file. I am using visual studio.[code]...
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Jul 23, 2009
I've been working on a program and the final step in it is to run an external exe. This particular exe is a video game exe. What happens is the code will run fine, the game starts up, and right when the screen blinks to go into the game, the game stops stops. I don't even get to the logos in the beginning.
This game in particular is Star Wars Battlefront II, and I'm trying to run the main game file (BattlefrontII.exe). I've tried TONS of ways to try and get this work.
System Diagnostics, MyProcess.StartInto blahblah.....
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Mar 30, 2010
I just want button1 to make label1 the external IP when you click it.I found this:[URL]..and it is just your ip when you go to it.I don't know how to make this work and I have looked around a bit.
Dim wc As New Net.WebClient
Dim html As String = wc.DownloadString("http://whatismyip.com/automation/n09230945.asp")
Label1.Text = html
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Apr 23, 2011
I keep trying different things I find on the net, but I can't get VB.net express to wait for exit. Hopefully someone can point me in the right direction here. Here is my code and all of this works but there is no way to tell when mugen stops.
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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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Jul 25, 2011
How do you maximize a external minimized application that is already running?
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Jul 22, 2011
I have a DLL that I made in FORTRAN to do some number crunching. It works in VB6 and in VBA within Excel. But I cannot get it to work in VB2008 or VB2010. If I try to access it the subroutines in the DLL I get either, 1) Structure of DLL invalid error or 2) Cannot find the DLL error.
Here is my VB2010 code for a smaller demo app that came with the FORTRAN development system. Again, this works with VB6 and VBA but not with VB.net
vb.net
Imports System
Imports System.Runtime.InteropServices
Public Class Form1
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May 20, 2010
I'm attempting to call an external public sub from another dll. I've added the dll as a reference and in VS Express 2010 it shows in my intellisense, however, it errors "Non-shared member requires object reference.[code]...
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Mar 11, 2012
how to add External dependencies .lib file in vb.net
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