Opening another program from VB

[J'rd]

I was wondering how to open another program from VB. Such as the calculator for example. I want to have a button that, when clicked, opens the calculator.

Thanks for the help

[howste]

I don't know if it's the same in straight VB, but in Access VBA it would be:

Call Shell("CALC.EXE", 1)

[Whir]

I think it's the same, but I'm not 100%. I've only done it once and that was a ways back at work.

Oh Vaaaaaaaaaaaaaaasss! ;0

[^hyd^]

for vb 6, it's just as howste said. first parameter is path and filename of app to run, second is windowstyle, returns a double.

someone else will have to help with vb.net... haven't had a chance to play with it yet...

cheers!

[vass0922]

in vbscript you can do something like (also works in vb)

Dim oShell
Set oShell = CreateObject ("WSCript.shell")
oShell.run ("calc.exe")

or howste's will work fine
personally I'd use howste's method, I try to limit the above method in normal vb *shrug*