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SendKeys in VB Express 2008??

I'm a new VB user and I'm trying to write a very simple exe script to run another engineering exe file called IB.EXE that opens a command prompt and requests a filename for an input deck from the user (call it a.txt). After pressing enter it outputs result files. I was plannning on using sendkeys command, but it doesn't seem to exist in VB 2008 Express. I also tried a batch file, but couldn't get past the input prompt issue. I'm a proficient matlab user and I'm trying to automate the call of the file IB.EXE so I can use it in optimization analysis without user input. Any ideas?
Oct 21 '08 #1
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jg007
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just use - "sendkeys.send("<your keys here>")"

for special keys see here MSDN
Oct 22 '08 #2

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