Making a shutdown timer. need help with the timer part

[mike_ftl]

i am making a shutdown timer for practice (and i need one that actually works how i need it to)
basically i got it to shutdown on demand, but i cant delay it. I have the GUI there and everything i just dont know how to put it together.
So what i need is a way to delay shutdown.exe using a combo box or somethig.

Ps i am using visual studio 2008.
Thanks.
(please help im tryin to get most of it done before school starts again)

 

[SwiftSeller]

Only shutdown timer I know of is to go thru.

Open command prompt via RUN and typing "CMD"

In CMD, type "shutdown/i" the menu will appear and you can set a timed delay for shutdown.

Other than that I have no idea.

 

[mike_ftl]

Only shutdown timer I know of is to go thru.

Open command prompt via RUN and typing "CMD"

In CMD, type "shutdown/i" the menu will appear and you can set a timed delay for shutdown.

Other than that I have no idea.

i think if i did that then the program would have to make a new timer file everytime i pressed start timer?

i dont know. Thanks for you help though

 

[cp]

Shutdown /i is for silly people. Real men use the command line arguments.

VB has a function called Shell().

To shutdown in 60 seconds, you would do this:

Shell("shutdown /s /t 60")

The string passed to Shell() is the command that is going to run, as if you would have ran it directly from the command line or used a batch file.

To see what else you can do with shutdown, it would be wise to look at the docs. (shutdown /?)

 

[mike_ftl]

Shutdown /i is for silly people. Real men use the command line arguments.

VB has a function called Shell().

To shutdown in 60 seconds, you would do this:

Shell("shutdown /s /t 60")

The string passed to Shell() is the command that is going to run, as if you would have ran it directly from the command line or used a batch file.

To see what else you can do with shutdown, it would be wise to look at the docs. (shutdown /?)

Sounds good.
Only problem is i dont know how to use the dropbars and stuff.

 

[cp]

Drop bars?

There is an entire tool box of controls... not to mention, they are drag and drop. Surely you can figure that out?