Launch an app from inside a vb program

[Jm]

Hi all

Im using System.Diagnostics.Process.Start to launch external apps from my
app but the working directory seems to point to where my app is located. How
can i get around this and basically say the working directory is the path of
the app that im launching ? I used shellexec api under vb6 is there an
equivalent built into .net ? Any help is greatly apprecuated

Thanks

[Chris Podmore]

Have a look at the ProcessStartInfo class.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...classtopic.asp

Hope this helps.
Chris.

"Jm" wrote:

Hi all

Im using System.Diagnostics.Process.Start to launch external apps from my
app but the working directory seems to point to where my app is located. How
can i get around this and basically say the working directory is the path of
the app that im launching ? I used shellexec api under vb6 is there an
equivalent built into .net ? Any help is greatly apprecuated

Thanks

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

"Jm" <ja*****@ihug.com.au> schrieb:

Im using System.Diagnostics.Process.Start to launch external apps from my
app but the working directory seems to point to where my app is located.
How
can i get around this and basically say the working directory is the path
of
the app that im launching ?

\\\
Dim psi As New ProcessStartInfo()
psi.FileName = "C:\foo.exe"
psi.WorkingDirectory = Path.GetDirectoryName(psi.FileName)
Process.Start(psi)
///

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M S Herfried K. Wagner
M V P <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>
V B <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/dotnet/faqs/>

[Jm]

Hi Herfried

Just what i needed

Thanks

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"Jm" <ja*****@ihug.com.au> schrieb:

Im using System.Diagnostics.Process.Start to launch external apps from my app but the working directory seems to point to where my app is located.
How
can i get around this and basically say the working directory is the path of
the app that im launching ?

\\\
Dim psi As New ProcessStartInfo()
psi.FileName = "C:\foo.exe"
psi.WorkingDirectory = Path.GetDirectoryName(psi.FileName)
Process.Start(psi)
///

--
M S Herfried K. Wagner
M V P <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>
V B <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/dotnet/faqs/>