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[jcnews]

I am a beginning programmer in VB.NET. I would like to write a program that
automates my programs. I want it to run a few programs in order, for
example: run a spyware program, close it. Then run a registry cleaner and
close it, then anti-virus... etc. It should also have the ability to send
data from the VB program to input into the other programs if necessary.

I can program in VBA but I don't know much about how to do this. I've
looked online and in my VB.NET books. It doesn't even have to be VB.NET --
I would be willing to try Perl, Python, Java if the commands were fairly
straightforward. I just don't have any idea where to start on this project.
Any advice would be appreciated.

Thanks.

 

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

I am a beginning programmer in VB.NET. I would like to
write a program that automates my programs.

Take a look at 'Microsoft.VisualBasic.Interaction.Shell' and
'System.Diagnostics.Process.Start'.