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Here’s a sweet and simple function that processes the command line arguments of a VB.Net application and returns a HashTable full of key-value pairs.

    ' This code is published under the University of Illinois Open Source License
    ' Author: Edward Delaporte


Private Function GetCommandLineArguments() As Hashtable
    Dim args As Hashtable
    Dim rawArgs As Array
    args = New Hashtable
    rawArgs = Environment.GetCommandLineArgs()
    For Each arg As String In rawArgs
        Dim key As String = ""
        Dim val As String = ""

				

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