Visual Basic

y2ktheory wrote:

I know theres a way to run them within the space of your vb.net form

y2ktheory wrote:

Some Applications offer ActiveX Controls which can be used by other applications in their programs (Such as Windows Media Player, MS Word etc.)
I'm not aware of a Notepad ActiveX Control so you will have to use a large text-box in your form and write the menu yourself"

y2ktheory wrote:

If I wanted to make a child window in my form, how would I tell the program to output/display in that window?

Const directoryPath As String = "C:\test"   ' The directory to look in

Dim desiredFiles As New List(Of String)     ' List of files we're looking for
With desiredFiles       ' Note I didn't use file extensions.  Change that if you'd like.
    .Add("File1")       ' but you'll need to tweak the code below if you do.
    .Add("File2")
End With

' METHOD 1

' Create a DirectoryInfo object for the desired directory
' to look in.
Dim info As New IO.DirectoryInfo(directoryPath)

' Get all the *.doc files in the directory
For Each file As IO.FileInfo In info.GetFiles("*.doc")
    ' The contains method is case sensitive.  If you want a case-insentive
    ' search you can add the desired file names in all lower or uppercase and then use the
    ' ToLower or ToUpper methods on the file name
    If desiredFiles.Contains(IO.Path.GetFileNameWithoutExtension(file.Name)) Then
        ' The file name was found in our list
        MsgBox("Directory contained file: " & file.Name)
    End If
Next

' METHOD 2
For Each file As String In desiredFiles
    If IO.File.Exists(IO.Path.Combine(directoryPath, file & ".doc")) Then
        MsgBox("Directory contained file: " & file)
    End If
Next