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Running WB from VB

Keywords:   launching Winbatch from Visual Basic

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I use one methods that always seems to work.

I use the WaitForSingleObject, OpenProcess and CloseHandle API's which are in Kernel32.

First you get a windows handle from the Shell to WinBatch, e.g. :

	iPid=Shell("c:\Winbatch\Winbatch.exe c:\winbatch\execxxx.wbt",0)

Then get the NT process id by using:

	iprocesshandle=OpenProcess(SYNCHRONIZE,0,iPid)

then isuue a call to WaitForSingleObject(iprocesshandle,INFINITE)

VB will sit and wait until process id iprocesshandle has completed.

Finally issue a CloseHandle(iprocesshandle)

Works every time.

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Article ID:   W14373

Filename:   Running WB from VB.txt

File Created: 1999:11:04:15:53:30

Last Updated: 1999:11:04:15:53:30