Question

Hopefully this is something simple I’m missing but I’m trying to figure out why I can’t launch a newly created vb .net app using a vbscript that has no trouble launching other .exe files.

Set WshShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
WshShell.Run chr(34) & "WindowsApplication5.exe" & Chr(34), 0
Set WshShell = Nothing

The app can be started manually with no problems just like any other .exe but this .vbs script treats it differently for some reason. Any help would be great.

Answer 1

I’ll put it as an answer to ease this up:

1. Remove chr(34) (Quite possibly optional, depends on wherther you have spaces in path)
2. Put full path to executable not just file name or put path in environment variables in OS. It doesn’t matter if you run the script in the same folder as the executable is placed in.
3. Remove ,0 or change it to an other number since 0 runs it invisible (you’ll find it in taskmanager in processes). Possible values found in http://www.devguru.com/technologies/wsh/quickref/wshshell_run.html