John W. Colby
jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com
Tue Aug 9 18:24:57 CDT 2005
This is what I found for doing this: System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("notepad.exe","sample.txt"); >From this article: http://www.dotnetbips.com/51AA8C48-7DD4-416B-A9D2-63C26644C120.aspx?articlei d=28 John W. Colby www.ColbyConsulting.com Contribute your unused CPU cycles to a good cause: http://folding.stanford.edu/ -----Original Message----- From: dba-vb-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-vb-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of John W. Colby Sent: Tuesday, August 09, 2005 2:04 PM To: dba-vb at databaseadvisors.com Subject: [dba-VB] Running an application from a service - DotNet VB.Net - I have successfully created a service with a timer that ticks every X seconds/minutes/hours. It is writing to the Application Event Log so I can see that the tick is happening. Now I need that service to now run an "external" application, i.e. (for example) run an Access application, etc. Does anyone have any experience with doing this? My next step is to create a VB.Net application that pulls data out of a table and turns it into a CSV file, marking the records as exported. I will need to run that application at a specific time of day so I need my service to run this program. John W. Colby www.ColbyConsulting.com Contribute your unused CPU cycles to a good cause: http://folding.stanford.edu/ _______________________________________________ dba-VB mailing list dba-VB at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-vb http://www.databaseadvisors.com