Thanks for your help. I'll look into alternatives.


>I don't know, I never tried it.
>Maybe you can make it into COM server and run using sp_OACreate and sp_OAMethod? Just an idea.
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>>>I don't think you can run application with GUI this way.
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>>Even though the program is written in VB - there is no user interaction - the app starts, does its thing, then closes. What would the difference be if I wrote a VFP prg and compiled in to an exe? It still wouldn't run using xp_cmdshell, would it?
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