launching another application within VB.NET Windows app

[my_lou]

hey folks,

 

what's the best way to run another application within a VB.NET Windows app?

 

i need to be able to generate barcodes in my VB.NET application and i have this shareware program that already does that. so i figured i could just run this little program within my application to solve the problem. this program is nothing but an .exe file. so what i need is a way to run an .exe file in VB.NET. now, i know i can do that using the Shell command, but the reason why i am posting this is because i wanted to get some opinions on what would be the most professional and elegant way of doing it.

 

Any advice?

 

thanks all.

[mutant]

Use the Process class from System.Diagnotics namespace. It has a Start method which will start up the program for you.

Dim p As Process = Process.Start("exe filename")