Launch A Program

[sport]

I'm trying to learn VB on my own, and I was just wondering if someone could tell how could I run an application from VB. For example make an exe program lunch, not read the file, run the file.

[Tony]

Shell(filepath:string)

I used to write programs to send messages over the school's network like

code:

Shell("net send " & sendTo & " " & message)

where sendTo and message are string variables

[sport]

Thanks for the help.

[Acid]

tony wrote:

I used to write programs to send messages over the school's network

Man, I wish I knew enough to be able to do that

[SuperGenius]

do you mean like the messages that you get when you use up too much space that say "From admin to smithbob on server xyz, you're using up too much space"

[Andy]

have u ppl never used netsend?? man u're missing out

[BioHazardousWaste]

lol, our network admin was actually smart enough to disable netsend.... thats about it besides regedit. Anyways, does anybody know how to run a program that a file is associated with? For example if I want to open C:\test.txt, visual basic should open the associated program (notepad) and then have it open the file (test.txt) in that program(notepad). I tried shell, and it gave me an error, i'm assuming it's because the file was not an .exe