Access VBA: How To Call A Windows Form Application with Arguments

Jan 17, 2014 About 1 min

To call a Windows Form application (*.exe) with arguments in VBA, you use the Shell() function.

Shell “C:\Dev\SampleWinFormWithArgs.exe arg1”, vbNormalFocus

Inside the Windows Form application, you get the command line arguments using Environment.GetCommandLineArgs().

string[] args = Environment.GetCommandLineArgs(); // you can call GetCommandLineArgs() anytime, anywhere foreach(string arg in args) { // do stuff // note that the first argument string is the application pathname }