Opening programs

[Stegmite]

Is it possible to open programs via Visual Studio? I would like to have a button that opens the .mdb file stored on the database.

 

[chrissie1]

System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("completefilepath")

this will open the .mdb with the associated program. And I guess that would be Access.

Christiaan Baes
Belgium

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[Stegmite]

Thank you

 

[Stegmite]

Here is my code

Private Sub cmdAdmin_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles cmdAdmin.Click
        System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("C:\Program Files\DataBase\db\database.mdb")
    End Sub

When I click the button, the slider on the status bar stops half-way...nothing opens.

 

[chiph]

Check your process list -- it might not be visible.

The progress bar stops because it's waiting for the other program to end. If you want the progress bar to continue you'll need to put your process.start code in it's own thread (do a search, it's been covered here before).

Chip H.


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