vb.net shell command help!

[blastman]

hey all i'm new in here so hello to all!!!

right down to business,

I have a little project for work that does several tasks.

the one i'm having issues with is a on a form of mine.

I'd like to start a bat file via the shell command but wait for the bat file to finish before popping up a messagebox,show ("completed" )

any ideas?

I'm very new to all of this so please forgive me if i've missed something important)

cheers in advance

[blastman]

I have the answer.

Start a new process (Notepad).
'
Dim myProcess As Process = System.Diagnost ics.Process.Sta rt("MyTextFile. txt")
'
' Wait until it ends.
'
myProcess.WaitF orExit()

MessageBox.Show ("Notepad ended: " & myProcess.ExitT ime & "." & _
System.Environm ent.NewLine & "Exit Code: " & myProcess.ExitC ode)
'
' Close the process to free resources.
'
myProcess.Close ()

works for me.

:-)