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Have you tried the shellExecute API? &nbsp;This function will open specific files with their default program. &nbsp;So if you pass a .pdf file to this function it will open acrobat and the file associated file, so all you would need is the path to the file. &nbsp;If you pass a url to this same function it will open the site using the default browser.
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Have you tried the shellExecute API?  This function will open specific files with their default program.  So if you pass a .pdf file to this function it will open acrobat and the file associated file, so all you would need is the path to the file.  If you pass a url to this same function it will open the site using the default browser.

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Check out also the following sample program:<br />
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<a href="http://homepage.eircom.net/~carafa/VBSamples/VBAll/shellexecute.zip" rel="ugc">http://homepage.eircom.net/~carafa/VBSamples/VBAll/shellexecute.zip</a>
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Check out also the following sample program:

http://homepage.eircom.net/~carafa/VBSamples/VBAll/shellexecute.zip [http://homepage.eircom.net/~carafa/VBSamples/VBAll/shellexecute.zip]

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Ah, I think I know... Adobe Acrobat opens .pdf files, right? <br />
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So find <br />
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.pdf<br />
instead of<br />
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.html<br />
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And continue in a similar fashion to .html<br />
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etcetera...<br />

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Ah, I think I know... Adobe Acrobat opens .pdf files, right?

So find
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.pdf
instead of
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.html

And continue in a similar fashion to .html

etcetera...


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I need to add two buttons to a VB app. These buttons need to open Internet Explorer and Adobe Acrobat. I would like to know is there any way to open their .exe's without giving the total, specific path? I've gotten it to work with the shell command but I need to hard code the entire path to the exe. This is not acceptable in the application since clients could have these particular executables in several locations, depending on the version. Can anyone help?
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I need to add two buttons to a VB app. These buttons need to open Internet Explorer and Adobe Acrobat. I would like to know is there any way to open their .exe's without giving the total, specific path? I've gotten it to work with the shell command but I need to hard code the entire path to the exe. This is not acceptable in the application since clients could have these particular executables in several locations, depending on the version. Can anyone help?

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Visual Basic is Microsoft’s event-driven programming language and integrated development environment (IDE) for its Component Object Model (COM) programming model. It is relatively easy to learn and use because of its graphical development features and BASIC heritage. It has been replaced with VB.NET, and is very similar to VBA (Visual Basic for Applications), the programming language for the Microsoft Office product line.