Visual Basic

jhoga wrote:

Come on now read documentation? Who does that?

jhoga wrote:

the pressure of an angry ap clerk

Luc Pattyn wrote:

Did you care looking at the documentation of the classes you use?

Paul Conrad wrote:

He obviously didn't and can't believe the attitude he gave you in his reply about reading documentation.

RCoate wrote:

Did you get that he was poking fun at himself in his reply?

'myProcess.StartInfo.FileName = "C:\Program Files\PDFcheck\pdffonts.exe " 'Full pathname to including file name
            'myProcess.StartInfo.Arguments = filename ' If the program takes args as string
            'myProcess.StartInfo.CreateNoWindow = True ' Does not create a window DOS program
            'myProcess.StartInfo.UseShellExecute = False ' Must be false to redirect output
            'myProcess.StartInfo.RedirectStandardOutput = True
            'myProcess.Start() ' Start the DOS program
            'myProcess.WaitForExit() ' Wait until it completes before moving on
            'prgOutput = myProcess.StandardOutput.ReadToEnd ' Get the DOS output
            'pdffonts = prgOutput
            'f.Close()

Private Declare Auto Function GetShortPathName Lib "kernel32" (ByVal lpszLongPath As String, ByVal lpszShortPath As System.Text.StringBuilder, ByVal cchBuffer As Integer) As Integer
Private Const MAX_PATH As Integer = 260
Public Function ShortFileName(ByVal LongFileName As String) As String
   Dim ShortPath As New System.Text.StringBuilder(MAX_PATH)
   Dim BufferSize As Integer = GetShortPathName(LongFileName, ShortPath, ShortPath.Capacity)
   Return ShortPath.ToString
End Function

someApp.exe "C:\Documents and Settings\userName\Desktop\Some Folder\File.txt"

someApp.exe C:\Documents and Settings\userName\Desktop\Some Folder\File.txt

Public Shared Function FixupCommandlineParameter(ByVal s As String) As String
    Return String.Format("""{0}""", s)
End Function

myProcess.StartInfo.Arguments = FixupCommandlineParameter(filename)