Starting another app from my VB app

[KC]

I want to start an application from my VB program. Problem is, I don't want
to hard code the path because this app might be in a different location on
the users machine, but if it is there they can start it by going to "Start |
Run..." and entering just the executable name.

How can I do that from my code? I guess I'm asking how to start a program
that's been registered on Windows.

 

[Guest]

System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("Notepad") will start notepad
System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("Excel") will start excel etc etc etc

 

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

I want to start an application from my VB program. Problem is, I don't want
to hard code the path because this app might be in a different location on
the users machine, but if it is there they can start it by going to "Start |
Run..." and entering just the executable name.

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