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You can use the VB.NET Shell command (in the Microsoft.VisualBasic namespace) to run an external process and wait for its termination, but you can get better control if you work

The System.Diagnostics.Process class exposes two methods that let you kill a process: CloseMainWindow should be used with processes that have a graphical interface, whereas the Kill method should be used

Enum FormatColumnAlignment Left Center RightEnd Enum’ format a value in a column of given width and with specified alignment’ using the specified pad character Function FormatValue(ByVal value As String, ByVal

SQL Server experts know that the DB engine never accesses directly the data pages on disk; rather it uses a special module called “Cache Manager”. It is possible, by using

ASP.NET doesn’t provide a built-in method for giving a control the input focus when the page loads. In fact, you can assign the TabIndex properties to controls on a page,

‘ A variant of the Split function, that offers the following improvements’ You can pass text qualifier as the third argument and optionally specify’ to treat consecutive occurrences of delimiters

Unlike previous Visual Basic versions, under VB.NET you can’t use the Len function to calculate the length of a Structure or a class. However, it is easy to get this

If you’re using a COM object through COM Interop you should be aware that the object isn’t released as soon as you set it to Nothing, as it happens with

The System.Collections.Specialized.BitVector32 structure can be used to store up to 32 boolean values, or a set of small integers that can take up to 32 consecutive bits. The BitVector32 is