How to wait for a shell process to finish before executing further code in VB6

Question

I have a small VB6 app in which I use the Shell command to execute a program. I am storing the output of the program in a file. I am then reading this file and

Answer 1

Great code. Just one tiny little problem: you must declare in the ExecCmd (after Dim start As STARTUPINFO):

Dim ret as Long

You will get an error when trying to compile in VB6 if you don't. But it works great :)

Kind regards