Quote Originally Posted by Niya View Post
It's fully qualified name is Microsoft.VisualBasic.Interaction.Shell(). The Microsoft.VisualBasic namespace is provided for compatibility with VB6. You will find all of the VB6 stuff in that namespace and it's use is not recommended for development. It was only provided to make migration of code from VB6 to VB.Net less of a chore, though it failed in this regard since the differences between VB6 and VB.Net goes far beyond what is contained in that namespace alone.
Thanks Niya, I stand corrected (The reason why I'd thought it might not have been was because I hadn't put in any import statements but it had still worked).