removing the first item of an array of strings?

[MrPolite]

uuh I wrote this, but it looks really ugly and dumd any better ways?

Dim args As New ArrayList
            args.AddRange(Environment.GetCommandLineArgs())
 
            If args.Count > 1 Then
                args.RemoveAt(0)
 
                Dim filenames() As String
                filenames = CType(args.ToArray(GetType(String)), String())
....

I just want to remove the first element of args(). That works but looks akward... just wondering if there is a better way