Re: Launching ActiveX applications from .Net

Simon,

You may want to try using the System.Diagnostics.Process class to start the
.EXE file instead.

Here's a decent tutorial on System.Diagnostics.Process:
http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/start_an_external_app.asp?df=100&forumid=15700&exp=0&select=1716842

As Efran mentioned, Process.Close() might be of interest to you since it
will close the process that calls it and can therefor be used to close the
console application.

I hope this helps some.

-Matt McDonald


On 1/31/07, Simon Cansick <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Matt - Just creating a reference to the COM component in Visual Studio
> 2005, .Net wrappers this object and I interact with it as a 'normal' .Net
> object.
>
> After I've created the object, I call a method which displays the
> GUI.  Here are the two lines of code:
>
>             openItems.starterClass starter = new openItems.starterClass();
>             starter.start(tempConnection, "SU");
>
>
> Thanks,
> Simon
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Discussion relating to the specifics of the C# and Managed C++
> languages [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Matthew
> McDonald
> Sent: 31 January 2007 15:29
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> Subject: Re: [DOTNET-CX] 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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