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Run Robocopy from within VB Express 2010

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February 16, 2012 at 07:12:34 Pacific
Specs: Windows 7, AMD Phenom 9600

Good Afternoon All

I have only just started to learn VB Express 2010 and what i wanted to know is how can i run the following code From a VB Express 2010 Button?: -

@echo off
set /P source=Enter Source Location^>
set /P target=Enter Destination Location^>
robocopy "%source%" "%target%" /MIR /XA:SH /XD AppData /XJD /R:5 /W:5 /V /TEE


Kind Regards
Tor Fey


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February 20, 2012 at 06:05:54 Pacific

Easiest way is to use System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(String).

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March 8, 2012 at 00:42:28 Pacific

Is there any way to have it print out what it is doing in a text field as it does when you run it from CMD?

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March 13, 2012 at 12:18:01 Pacific

That's harder.

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