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I believe you need to change the .exe application into a .dll, so you can reference it on main.exe. &nbsp;Otherwise, the only way to execute the .exe application is by having a separate process.
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I believe you need to change the .exe application into a .dll, so you can reference it on main.exe.  Otherwise, the only way to execute the .exe application is by having a separate process.

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OK. more specifically, if the additional .exe is written Python and compiled a EXE could it be converted into a .dll at all? If yes how would it be used from within VB.NET then? Thanks!
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OK. more specifically, if the additional .exe is written Python and compiled a EXE could it be converted into a .dll at all? If yes how would it be used from within VB.NET then? Thanks!

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I have a VB.NET project (main.exe) and include an additional .exe application as internal resource. Now I do not want to run the extra .exe as a separate process but want to attach it to the process of main.exe so I have just 1 process overall and not 2.<br />
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How could this be done?<br />
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Thank you!
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I have a VB.NET project (main.exe) and include an additional .exe application as internal resource. Now I do not want to run the extra .exe as a separate process but want to attach it to the process of main.exe so I have just 1 process overall and not 2.

How could this be done?

Thank you!

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