Using Shell()

[Ken Miller]

Hi all. I'm fairly new to programming, and have started using visual
basic.net, just found this place, so hope someone can help as I'm a little
stuck :)

I'm trying to write a small front end to an application, now this was going
fine up until this morning, where I had to send the parameters to the actual
app. I have this:

Private Sub MenuItem2_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As
System.EventArgs) Handles MenuItem2.Click

If OpenFileDialog1.ShowDialog = DialogResult.OK Then

TextBox1.Text = OpenFileDialog1.FileName

ProcID = Shell("C:\WINDOWS\pscp.EXE", AppWinStyle.NormalFocus)

What would be the correct way of sending the contents of TextBox1.Text (the
path to the file to be used) to Shell? The help doesnt really mention this
at all.

Thanks heaps for your help

Ken

[Randy Birch]

This is really a VB 'classic' group, so you may want to hang out with the
dotnetters on the msnews server, e.g one of these or other similarly-named
groups devoted exclusively to .net programming:

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"Ken Miller" <ke*@NEIN.metaSPAMhusky.net> wrote in message
news:cb**********@sparta.btinternet.com...
: Hi all. I'm fairly new to programming, and have started using visual
: basic.net, just found this place, so hope someone can help as I'm a little
: stuck :)
:
: I'm trying to write a small front end to an application, now this was
going
: fine up until this morning, where I had to send the parameters to the
actual
: app. I have this:
:
: Private Sub MenuItem2_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As
: System.EventArgs) Handles MenuItem2.Click
:
: If OpenFileDialog1.ShowDialog = DialogResult.OK Then
:
: TextBox1.Text = OpenFileDialog1.FileName
:
: ProcID = Shell("C:\WINDOWS\pscp.EXE", AppWinStyle.NormalFocus)
:
: What would be the correct way of sending the contents of TextBox1.Text
(the
: path to the file to be used) to Shell? The help doesnt really mention this
: at all.
:
: Thanks heaps for your help
:
: Ken
:
: