Iniciar un programa en C# y VB.NET

C#

using System;
using System.Diagnostics;
using System.ComponentModel;

namespace MyProcessSample
{
    class MyProcess
    {
        public static void Main()
        {
            Process myProcess = new Process();

            try
            {
                myProcess.StartInfo.UseShellExecute = false;
                myProcess.StartInfo.FileName = "C:\\ejecutable.exe";
                myProcess.StartInfo.CreateNoWindow = true;
                myProcess.Start();

            }
            catch (Exception e)
            {
                Console.WriteLine(e.Message);
            }
        }
    }
}

VB.NET

Imports System
Imports System.Diagnostics
Imports System.ComponentModel


Namespace MyProcessSample

    Class MyProcess

        Public Shared Sub Main()
            Dim myProcess As New Process()

            Try 

                myProcess.StartInfo.UseShellExecute = False
                myProcess.StartInfo.FileName = "C:\\ejecutable.exe"
                myProcess.StartInfo.CreateNoWindow = True
                myProcess.Start()

            Catch e As Exception
                Console.WriteLine((e.Message))
            End Try
        End Sub
    End Class
End Namespace

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