VB .NET to open Visio

[zuhalterr]

I have a question.

I am creating a VB .NET application that opens Visio to do some stuff there. Visio runs a splash screen on startup and the only way to stop the splash screen from loading is to use code like:

"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Visio10\Visio.exe" /nologo
"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Visio11\Visio.exe" /nologo
"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Visio12\Visio.exe" /nologo

for each Visio versions in the command line (but I am not using the command line).

The problem I am having is that I can't run this code from my vb .net application, because my application uses the following code to load Visio:

Dim vsoApplication As Application
vsoApplication = New Visio.Application()
vsoApplication.Visible = False

and I do not know how to call the "/nologo" feature on loading time from my code to skip the Visio splash screen.

Any help is highly appreciated.

[dglienna]

Look up Process.Start()

It lets you call programs with parameters

[HanneSThEGreaT]

You could also try the ProcessInfo object as well

[zuhalterr]

Thank you for your replies.

Using the ProcessStartInfo functionality helps in hiding Visio's splash screen, but in my code I have a variable called:

Public vsoApplication As Microsoft.Office.Interop.Visio.Application

and this variable is used everywhere to enable Visio's functions.

I am having problems associating the newly started visio process that I started using the ProcessStartInfo functionality with the vsoApplication object, so that I can use it in my code.

So is there a way to identify the process type and get the application associated with that type and assign it to the vsoApplication variable?

Can you please help me resolve that?

Thanks.

[answer42]

You can use the InvisibleApp class.

Imports Visio = Microsoft.Office.Interop.Visio

Dim vsoApplication As Visio.InvisibleApp
instead of
Dim vsoApplication As Visio.Application