guidence needed with visual basic

Hi Guys,

I'm just looking for some help please. I am very new to using visual basic. New as in, never used it before in my life. Basically, i'm using it to create a very small and simple user interface. I want this program to load when windows starts up. I've got three buttons in the interface. I would like it so that when a user clicks on the respective button, it will load (run) a program which is on the computer, Eg. Click button1 and it runs firefox, or click button2 and it starts up VLC player. how can I make this happen please??? I'm using Visual Basic 2010 express.

thank you??

phoenix

 

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/xe736fyk(v=vs.80).aspx

As for startup, use the Startup folder or the HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run key.

 

ok, thank you very much for your help. Does anyone know how I can link up the buttons to run programs on my computer please??

thank you

pheonix

 

Use VB.net for this. In VB6 you need to go through the Win32 Shell API which isn't all that hard, it's just that much more work. In VB.net there's a single, simple command:

Code:

Process.Start("process filepath here")

 

This may help you out .

 

For basic program such as this, you can google it via various keywords and find out (eg: how to add buttons)

Back in the days I had to learn and make a database using VB and Access. I used this: http://www.experts-exchange.com/

A month sub is good enough and the are really helpful!