Programming Forums - import namespace

I created a streamreader:

Dim sOut As System.IO.StreamReader

But the code I got off a web-page was:

Dim sOut as streamreader

I know this is a basic question but I haven�t quite got my head around OOP.

I�m guessing that the second lot of code would have had the namespace system.IO imported thus visual studios knows where to look for streamreader.

My question is how would I use the import or what ever is required to get the second lot of code to work in a �public class form1" button.click procedure without having pre-pend the system.IO

Public Class Form1



    Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click



        Dim myProcess As Process = New Process()

        Dim s As String

        myProcess.StartInfo.FileName = "cmd.exe"

        myProcess.StartInfo.UseShellExecute = False

        myProcess.StartInfo.CreateNoWindow = True

        myProcess.StartInfo.RedirectStandardInput = True

        myProcess.StartInfo.RedirectStandardOutput = True

        myProcess.StartInfo.RedirectStandardError = True

        myProcess.Start()

        Dim sIn As System.IO.StreamWriter = myProcess.StandardInput

        sIn.AutoFlush = True



        Dim sOut As System.IO.StreamReader = myProcess.StandardOutput

        Dim sErr As System.IO.StreamReader = myProcess.StandardError



        sIn.Write("ping.exe" & System.Environment.NewLine)

        sIn.Write("exit" & System.Environment.NewLine)

        s = sOut.ReadToEnd()

        If Not myProcess.HasExited Then

            myProcess.Kill()

        End If



        sIn.Close()

        sOut.Close()

        sErr.Close()

        myProcess.Close()

        MessageBox.Show(s)



    End Sub

End Class

I hope this makes sense. If it doesn�t then I will try to clarify to the best of my ability's within my limited programming vocabulary.

hush