What is the best (most efficient and security-wise) way of calling an exe from a VB that will accept command-line arguments?
Also, what is the simpliest way of calling an exe that you may not know where it resides (i.e. call the exe without having to specify a full path for it just the name of the exe)? Thanks in advance for any help.

RP

hi there..

shell is a nice way to execute an exe... also you could try it with some api (i dont remember any now...)
if you don't know where the exe is you will have to have it in the path variable so windows will find it.


HTH

Gonzalo

Thats what I've been doing so far so it's nice to know someone agrees. Here's a quick one I'm unsure of though. Is there a way to compile my exe and put it into a Setup.exe but somewhere have the installation set the environment variable for the path to include this path? Somehow set the path variable automatically would eliminate having the customer do it. Thanks for the response.

RP

sure.. that's depends how you deploy your program... a lot of installer have an option to add a path variable to the path...

HTH

Gonzalo

Right now what I do is I go into the Application Wizard and create the Setup.exe and, if need be, zip it up and send to customers. When you refer to "installers" I assume you are talking about something outside of the Setup.exe that gets created. If so, where can I go about getting an installer or something to add more smarts to my installations? Thanks again.

RP

well.. you can add the thing you want to the setup created with the setup wizard. There is a project call setup1 that can be open and you can change things inside to add the thing you want.. that's the exe used when you created the P&D.

If I were you i will try to google a solution, for sure someone try to do this before...

HTH

Gonzalo