Opening an fotran .exe file from Visual Basic

[jaap de vries]

Opening a fortran .exe file from Visual Basic

Dear friends,

I want to do something that is probably not too hard, I just can't figure it out. I want to call a executable (.exe) file that I have written in Fortran from my visual basic code. Let's say push a button and it automatically runs my (.exe) program. This way I would combine computational efficiency with a nice graphical user interface.

Any suggestions?

 

[jpr0]

As far as i remember there was a command like:

Shell("c:\wherever\something.exe")

 

[jaap de vries]

Thanks this seems to work.

 

[sramanujam]

Hi, I tried the shell command in visual basic and it works, but the problem is the something.exe file is not able to read the input from a file. However when it is opened directly (ie not from visual basic, but from fortran compiler), it works fine. Can you help me?