Getting data from external applications in VB.Net

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  • P. McCoy

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    Getting data from external applications in VB.Net

    My apologies if this has already been asked before.

    My problem: I have an 3rd party application written in C++ that works
    well but it lacks some automated features that could save me a lot of
    time. The application migrates files from an optical drive
    (non-windows format) in a jukebox to a hard drive and reports the
    progress in a textbox labeled "# of Successful Requests". What I
    would like to do is write a VB.Net application that monitors whether
    or not the textbox has stopped, automatically fills in the appropriate
    textboxes, and clicks a button to move on to the next disk in the
    jukebox.

    I can find a lot of process information about this application but I
    have no idea how to even get a listing of the application's controls,
    much less the data they contain. For that matter, I have no idea
    whether or not it is even possible to do something like this in
    VB.Net. Does anyone know how to do this or if it is possible to do
    this?

    Thank you for any help you can give.
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