coder000 » launch http://coder000.com an exploration, a quest... to grow Thu, 03 Sep 2009 17:46:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Launch applications, links and mails from vb net http://coder000.com/launch-applications-links-and-mails-from-vb-net/ http://coder000.com/launch-applications-links-and-mails-from-vb-net/#comments Wed, 02 Sep 2009 03:22:15 +0000 Rahul Vyas http://coder000.com/?p=279 This discussion uses System.Diagnostics.Process.Start method for functionality like providing a click-able web link, launching an email client (like outlook, mailto links), or launching another application from vb.net code.

What is common in all the three scenarios above?

In all of the cases we are trying to start another process from the current process (our application). This can be done by the Process class provided by .NET framework. To start the process we use the Start method.

Starting another application

To start an application from our code, we can use the Start method. Following piece of code starts calculator:

System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("calc.exe")

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