Open Application Inside VB Form??

[kayj]

I write programs using Visual Basic and VB.Net that automate external applications such as Solidworks and Excel. Up until now I have been having my programs open instances of these external apps in their own windows. I now want to be able to start an instance of these apps inside of a windows form without having them open in their own windows outside of my program interface. Therefore my question is, Does anyone know of a form control (and) or tool that will facilitate this? Or for that matter, does anybody have any idea how I might be able to accomplish this? Thanks for your time folks!!

 

[yakpol]

Check out "Shell()" function, it allows you to perform Windows command in the same manner as from Start-Run menu. You will have to ask solidworks to provide you with the syntax of the batch command. It, probably, is going to have a few switches and options. I've done somewhat similar working with GTSTRUDL, they have at least 10 volumes of program documentation, but this little batch command is not part of it. You will have to call.

Good luck.