[dba-VB] CopyAndRun

jwcolby jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com
Thu Jan 26 11:21:00 CST 2012


Is this the thing that has to be modified directly in the registry?  I ran across something like 
that and decided I wasn't going to do that.

John W. Colby
Colby Consulting

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On 1/25/2012 7:56 PM, Stuart McLachlan wrote:
> Probably a stupid question, but given your problem with multiple instances of the same
> database- are you sure you have AllowMultiple set?
>
> On 25 Jan 2012 at 19:00, jwcolby wrote:
>
>>   >  Since I'm just learning C#, this might be a stupid question, but where are you defining
>> pDestFileSpec? It doesn't seem to be passed in.
>>
>> It is a property of the class which is initialized in the constructor.  The constructor is passed a
>> recordset item, which reads properties from the table, things like source filespec, destination
>> address, IsExecutable, AllowMultiple etc.
>>
>> John W. Colby
>> Colby Consulting
>>
>> Reality is what refuses to go away
>> when you do not believe in it
>>
>> On 1/25/2012 5:14 PM, Arthur Fuller wrote:
>>> Since I'm just learning C#, this might be a stupid question, but where are
>>> you defining pDestFileSpec? It doesn't seem to be passed in.
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 2:48 PM, jwcolby<jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>> You might remember my discussing a C# program I am writing which I call
>>>> CopyAndRun (C&R).  It basically is a table driven method of copying one or
>>>> more files from the network to the user's workstation and then executing
>>>> the (access) application.  I use it for creating a directory and copying my
>>>> libs and access apps to the user's local c: drive.
>>>>
>>>> I use the following code to actually open the file:
>>>>
>>>>          public void mExecuteFile()
>>>>          {
>>>>              //http://stackoverflow.com/**questions/5831844/tracking-**
>>>> multiple-processes-at-same-**time<http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5831844/tracking-multiple-processes-at-same-time>
>>>>              try
>>>>              {
>>>>                  System.Diagnostics.Process myProcess = new Process();
>>>>                  myProcess.StartInfo.FileName = pDestFileSpec;
>>>>                  myProcess.StartInfo.**UseShellExecute = true;
>>>>                  Process.Start(pDestFileSpec);
>>>>              }
>>>>              catch (Exception)
>>>>              {
>>>>                  throw;
>>>>              }
>>>>          }
>>>> --
>>>
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