Re: Executing Application from Windows Service

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well you could try this one

Imports System.Diagnostics

Public Module modmain

Sub Main()

Dim NewProcess as Process = new Process

NewProcess.Start("C:\MyApplication.exe")

End Sub

End Module

the above code is the counterpart of the shellexecute api

regards

Mchel Posseth [MCP]

"Rajeev Ramanujan" <rajeev.ramanujan@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:%23pZT0udkFHA.1044@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Hi All,
>
> I'm trying to execute a standalone application written in VB .Net using
> a windows service developed using VB .Net. But the service is not able to
> execute the application.
>
> How to make the application execute from the Windows Service that i
> wrote? I tried using the SHELL command to execute the application from the
> service as shown below.
>
> Shell("c:\temp\WindowsApplication2.exe", AppWinStyle.Hide)
>
>
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Rajeev R
>


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