I was looking through the book that I purchased (Beginning VB.NET - 2nd Edition) some time ago and was looking a for a code that would enable me to run a windows command by using a Command Button. I am new to the VB .NET world. If anyone has any good idea or knows the line of code that I could use to run the command, that would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Sean

What do you mean by “a windows command”?

I want to be able to shutdown a windows service.
In this case, I'm using the net stop command.
I basically want the button, when I click on it, to run the net command. (i.e. net stop <service>)
It should, when I click on it, open up and command prompt and run the net command.
Hope this makes sense.

Thanks

You could use a System.Diagnostics.Process class to run the command, but this won't behave visually like you describe. There may also be a cleaner way to manipulate services through managed .net classes. Is your goal to literally start a command prompt in which you shut down a service using the "net stop" command or is it to actually just shut down a service? If it's the latter and you can control the service programmatically, you could provide your own visual feedback for it while having much more control over the process (i.e. detecting failed operations) so make your application more robust.

-Peter
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