Good morning guys, i have another question. How can I run a VB program in the background?meaning I have a VB program that is supposed to run every 1 hour everyday, the problem is if i do this, the program keeps on popping on my screen every 1 hour. How can i make it run without the program popping on my screen?can i minimize it or put it in the system tray?pls help.

Hi pcvillaluz,

       You can just hide the form.

Example:

        form1.hide

you can hide the form but its better to do an unload me

coz if u just hide and then goto task manager u will see as many times it has run.. so at the end just do an Unload Me

To confusedbrat:

       He wants it to run in the background so I suggested to hide the form he can then put the "unload me" after 1 hr to unload the form. pcvillaluz, confusedbrat is right you should unload the form if you're not using it.

Does it need to have a form, can you just run it as a sub main.

Steve  

How can it be done using sub main?

Create a standard project

Add a module

In the module your start up code will be in a sub as below

Private Sub main() End Sub

Now remove the form from the project

In the project properties check that the "startup object" is "Sub Main"

Now you have a form less project

Steve  

[Edited by steve_w on 23-12-2005 at 09:56 AM GMT]

thank you so much guys it's already working thank you for your help