What could be meant by a "Shell" application ?

[zobobo]

Hi,

This may or may not be the best place to ask this.

A client recently asked me to develop a "Shell" application in Visual Basic.Net. The client specified the functionality required. For example a button is required to browse for a Wave file and then read it into memory.

I have completed the functionality they requested from me. Except that I do not know what they mean by a "Shell" application.

I need to know what they mean without asking them.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

 

[dgorka]

I've always heard of it as shelling out to an application. As in, you call it as using the line

Shell("C:\run.bat", AppWinStyle.NormalFocus)

But I've never heard of a Shell application. Maybe its the same thing?

 

[zobobo]

I've always heard of it as shelling out to an application. As in, you call it as using the line

Shell("C:\run.bat", AppWinStyle.NormalFocus)

But I've never heard of a Shell application. Maybe its the same thing?

Possible. But I think there's more to it. I think maybe what is meant is a scripting application written in VBA or something. But that the code is the same as it would be in VB.Net.

 

[jshultz]

When dealing with customers it is always best to talk with them about what they mean rather than guessing what it is they meant.

 

[vinnie881]

A shell app is normally considered to be a app that is launched and runs in a seperate instance. I normally see the term thrown around when you are developing a standard app, then from within that application you launch a shell of another app.

My assumption is they just want a standard vb.net application, and didn't know what a they were talking about.