How do I make a textbox run a command for me on visual basic

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i can't seem to make a textbox run a command for me in visual basic
in c# i would be able to do this easily but my program need vb to use it
so i cant use c#
and i don't know how to make the code for this
what i'm trying to do is when i type in words like commands and press enter the textbox would display in another textbox the commands and if i type in one of the commands in the textbox it will do the command and show the command you've done in the other textbox
thank you for your help

What I have tried:

I have tried various codes but none of them seem to work

Posted 28-Mar-18 12:00pm

Member 13752095

Updated 28-Mar-18 13:29pm

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an0ther1 28-Mar-18 18:19pm

What type of command are you talking about? If you are saying you want to execute a method, then a Select..Case statement should work for you - if the command is not an exact match then handle that in the Case Else statement.
If you are talking about running a command such as 'MyExecutable.exe' then you could use Process.Start().

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Dave Kreskowiak · Answer 1 · 2018-03-28T13:30:00

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You're question makes little sense.

A TextBox only displays and allows a user to edit text, nothing more. It provides no facility to "make [it] run a command".

So, what kind of command are you talking about? Are you saying it should run a command line, like in the Start -> Run box (Win-R)? Or are you taking about running some arbitrary method in your code? Or what?

Also, your reason for uising VB over C# is entirely arbitrary and has nothing to do with the code or it's ability to do this. VB.NET is just a verbose copy of C# without the curly braces and semi colons.

Posted 28-Mar-18 13:30pm

Dave Kreskowiak

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Member 13752095 30-Mar-18 10:47am

My this i mean that if i type cmds the commands will show in another textbox. For example if a command is close and i type close and press enter then the program will close. That's what i mean
i couldnt explain it well before

Dave Kreskowiak 30-Mar-18 10:51am

If you can do this so easily in C#, there is really no difference in the code between C# and VB.NET. The code is almost exactly the same, save for semantic differences. Take a short block of code and paste it into any online C#/VB.NET code converter and you'll see exactly what I mean.