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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

Enum FormatMemorySizeUnits BestGuess Bytes Kilobytes Megabytes GigabytesEnd Enum’ convert a number of bytes into Kbytes, Megabytes, or GigabytesFunction FormatMemorySize(ByVal value As Long, _ ByVal unit As FormatMemorySizeUnits, Optional ByVal decimalDigits

The Process class provides all you need to create a command-line utility that lists all the processes running on the system and all the related information. This utility is therefore

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

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

.NET Boolean values require 4 bytes each, as opposed to the 2 byte taken under previous VB versions. When creating very large Boolean arrays this extra memory impacts negatively on