Executing External Programs

[Rasika]

Hi

I've looked around trying to find how to do this with
little success. I am trying to see how I can
programatically execute another program from withing the
main program.

eg.

ExternalApplication.Run("\Program Files\Program.exe");

 

[Maarten Struys]

What you need to do is P/Invoke CreateProcess. To do so you can use the
OpenNETCF WinAPI library: http://www.opennetcf.org/winapi.asp.

 

[Alex Feinman [MVP]]

I seriously suggest using google to search this newsgroup. This particular
question is asked on average 3-4 times a week. It's not that I get bored to
type in the same answer over and over again, but it would be the time better
spent by answering some new question....

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=...soft.public.dotnet.framework.compactframework

Make sure you selected the option "Search only in ..."

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=...soft.public.dotnet.framework.compactframework

 

[Rasika]

Thanks for your help

the problem was I was searching using the wrong keywords
such as "Executing", "External" etc. I would have needed
to have known "ShellExecute", etc to have got some
results. A bit of a catch 22.

 

[Alex Feinman [MVP]]

Yes, that has occured to me after I posted. I think it was in one the
Schekley's stories - To ask a question properly one needs to know most of
the answer