Visual Basic 2015 Unleashed

Creating Application Domains and Executing Assemblies

You have two ways for executing assemblies inside application domains: getting the instance of the default application domain for the running assembly (that is, your application) and creating a new application domain. The System.AppDomain class provides a shared property named CurrentDomain, of type System.AppDomain, which represents the instance of the current application domain. You get the instance and then execute the assembly as follows:

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Dim currentDomain As AppDomain = AppDomain.CurrentDomaincurrentDomain.ExecuteAssembly("AnotherApp.exe")

The AppDomain class exposes an instance ExecuteAssembly method that enables executing the specified assembly within an ...