How to pass data (structure) from on exe to another?

[Guest_imported]

How can i pass some data from one EXE to anther running EXe
in VB?

 

[culshaja]

There are at least hree ways of doing this. Here are three:

1. Use an intermedaitery textual file which you can read or write to - possibly even XML.

2. Create one as an ActiveX EXE and then bring use that EXE in the other.

3. use an intermediatery DLL that implements callbacks. This is just another working on idea 2.

I haven't looked fully into it yet but you might try lokking at SOAP to provide a publicly accessible interface. Again this is just a reworking of the concept used in ideas 2 and 3.

James James Culshaw
jculshaw@active-data-solutions.co.uk

http://www.active-data-solutions.co.uk

http://www.brainbench.com/transcript.jsp?pid=193305

 

[grnfvr]

Someone correct me if i'm wrong, but using INI files or the system registry and API calls should do the trick.

 

[culshaja]

Depends if you wan to use running programs. THe registry should only be used for configuration information.

James James Culshaw
jculshaw@active-data-solutions.co.uk

http://www.active-data-solutions.co.uk

http://www.brainbench.com/transcript.jsp?pid=193305