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Stray Dog Joined: 14 Oct 2003 Posts: 7 Location: England

How would I go about calling the net send command within VB, could someone post an example as to how it is done Very Happy

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Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2003 5:28 am Post subject:

You could use the shell command.

Stray Dog Joined: 14 Oct 2003 Posts: 7 Location: England

and me being a complete newbie to VB could you enlighten me to the use of this command. and is there any other methods that I may look into ?

Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2003 6:06 am Post subject:

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Dim retVal as Long





retVal = Shell("C:\MyFolder\MyProg.exe")

I would have put the path to the 'net send' command in there, but I'm not familiar with it. It's an executable right?

The shell command will run the executable in a command window... it think minimized by default, but you can change that with a second optional argument to the function. I think the return value is the handle for the new command window.

The executable will lauch and continue on in your code. So it is not going to wait until it finishes executing before the rest of your procedure is executed.

Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2003 6:10 am Post subject:

Try this:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/vbenlr98/html/vafctShell.asp?frame=false

The return value is the "task ID" according to the doc, so I think that means the Process ID (a term we're more familiar with). You'll have to hold onto that ID number to get info on the process afterwards, or to programmatically kill it.

Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2003 6:26 am Post subject:

Why call an external process? Why not just interact with the Alerter or Messenger service directly from your program?

Stray Dog Joined: 14 Oct 2003 Posts: 7 Location: England

Demon wrote:
Why call an external process? Why not just interact with the Alerter or Messenger service directly from your program?

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