Yo,
Sorry for posting something as mundane as this to the SD forum, but Ive searched everywhere for the answer including the M$DN reference disks, the M$DN website, VB websites and even asked a couple professional VB coders.
How do you launch an external application from a VB app using VB code (including passing arguments to the ext app)? Is that possible or is it blocked for security reasons? I know how to do it easily in VC++ so I could always write a VC++ DLL that launches the ext app and then interface with it in VB but I REALLY dont want to do that.
Also because im asking coder questions, how do you make a VB or VC++ app minimise to the systray? Or even get the Icon there in the first place. Ive looked everywhere for that too. I dont need to know all the details, I know how to capture windows messages in VC++ etc, I just need to know how to get it in the tray.
If the answer to either is to long, please post a link.
TY
-Blah