How to launch a EXE file from within the VC++ code?

[helloitsme]

Hello!

Could someone please help me figure out how to run an executable file from within the soure code and pass the commands to the exe file to be launched!

I was trying to use tools.shell, but it gives me error...

please help....

[Banfa]

Call CreateProcess

[helloitsme]

Thanx a lot Banfa for your reply!

I tried using CreateProcess. But I keep getting the error "Unhandled exception at 0x7c825352 in InventoryFiles.exe: 0xC0000005: Access violation writing location 0x006a3ce2.".

I dont know where the problem lies.

the part of code I used for my testing of this function is -
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STARTUPINFO si;
PROCESS_INFORMATION pi;

ZeroMemory( &si, sizeof(si) );
si.cb = sizeof(si);
ZeroMemory( &pi, sizeof(pi) );

CreateProcess( NULL, // No module name (use command line)
TEXT("NOTEPAD"), // Command line
NULL, // Process handle not inheritable
NULL, // Thread handle not inheritable
FALSE, // Set handle inheritance to FALSE
0, // No creation flags
NULL, // Use parent's environment block
NULL, // Use parent's starting directory
&si, // Pointer to STARTUPINFO structure
&pi ) ; // Pointer to PROCESS_INFORMATION structure

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Kindly point out my error...

Thank you....

[Jagdish]

You can use ShellExecute Function to execute any exe from VC++ code.

Hope that will help you.

Jagdish

[helloitsme]

Hello Jagdish!

Thank you for your reply!

Can you please tell me how to open the command prompt using shellexecute...

thank you once again....

[helloitsme]

Hello !

to conitnue my previous post, below is the part of the code where I am trying to launch notepad through command prompt using shellexecute.

with this, the commandprompt does come up, but the text "NOTEPAD" is not passed to the command window. please help me do that...

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int x = (int)ShellExecute(NULL, NULL, L"C:\\WINDOWS\\system32\\cmd.exe", L"NOTEPAD", NULL, SW_SHOWNORMAL);

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thanx a ton....