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Application Control Issues

HI, I'm fairly new to VB.net and am trying to write an application that controls another.

Basically at the moment I'm using the SendKeys function to control it as the external application has no command line controls. I was trying to find out if there is a way to send the keystrokes to the application while keeping it hidden, i.e. using some API call or something to focus to it?

Also I would like to close the application when it had finished the process, is there any way to determine when the application is inactive? (again there are no commmand line arguments or reports)

Thanks in advance!

I'm using Visual Basic Express 2005
Jul 25 '07 #1
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