How to execute a Setup.exe from a Button 1

[thermalman]

Hi, I am fairly new to using Visual Basic.net.

I have created a form with 7 buttons on it that indicate 7 Drivers that a Customer can load when they need to. I thought of creating the program as an .exe and putting it on to a CD along with a main folder named drivers and then sub folders for say Graphics, Network, Chipset etc....

The problem that I face is that I everybodies CD Rom drive is different so
Question 1: How can I program the buttons to call the relevant .exe when I don't know where to call it from. I have read a few forums and some people talk about using the Shell command? Can anybody give me an example of say calling a setup.exe using the Shell command.

Question 2: How can I get the form to know when the setup program has finished and come back to the main screen.

Regards
Thermalman

 

[jebenson]

Put your app in the root of the CD and put all the drivers in their folders. Then call them like this:

System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(Application.StartupPath & "\<folder name>\Setup.exe")

Put the actual folder name in place of <folder name>.



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