Run and .exe in resources?

[Apoc]

Neth'Zul, I'm going to assume you've built the other exe into your program via the Resources, and not just a string variable to the program location. In which case, you can open the program as a memory stream.

So search for how to run an application from a MemoryStream. (Sorry, no code here, as I don't have the time right now to write it.)

[Facist]

The majority of the people helping don't understand what the OP is saying. He doesn't want to execute a file on a drive, but rather inside the program. The program's resources are where files are put that are apart of one exe.

[1814]

you have to extract the ressource first

Dim data() As Byte = My.Resources.Neth
Dim file As New System.IO.FileStream("Neth.exe", IO.FileMode.Create)
file.Write(data, 0, data.Length)
file.Close()

after that you can execute it with

Shell(My.Computer.FileSystem.CurrentDirectory & "\Neth.exe")

[Y R U A NUB ?]

Unfortunately you can not add an EXE to the resources.. You could place the file in the same folder and do:

System.Diagnostic.Process.Start("file.exe")

, though.

[ReidE96]

you have to extract the ressource first

Dim data() As Byte = My.Resources.Neth
Dim file As New System.IO.FileStream("Neth.exe", IO.FileMode.Create)
file.Write(data, 0, data.Length)
file.Close()

after that you can execute it with

Shell(My.Computer.FileSystem.CurrentDirectory & "\Neth.exe")

I was wondering how y'do that. Thanks! +Rep

[Apoc]

Unfortunately you can not add an EXE to the resources.. You could place the file in the same folder and do:

System.Diagnostic.Process.Start("file.exe")

, though.

If you don't know what you're talking about, don't post.

You can put literally ANYTHING in a resource file. It is all saved to a byte array in the end, which you can read out in either a MemoryStream, or just the byte array.