Re: Launching ActiveX applications from .Net

Simon,

Are you using System.Diagnostics.Process or some other method to start the
VB6 applications?

-Matt McDonald


On 1/31/07, Simon Cansick <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Chaps,
>
> I'm working on a project that requires me to launch legacy ActiveX Exe
> (VB6) applications from .Net (I'm using C#)
>
> I've created a console application that successfully launches my ActiveX
> applications, but these applications are destroyed when that console
> application terminates.
>
> Well kind of destroyed, the GUI terminates, but the process lingers on
> according to Task Manager.
>
> So I've been trying to find a way of creating a thread, launching my
> ActiveX, then destroying the 'parent' thread (I believe this is called
> an orphaned thread), because I don't want the console app to continue.
> But I've not had much luck.
>
> Has anyone got experience in this area?
>
> Simon James
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