Windows 10 Search with - in file name

If you have "-" in the beginning of word that you want to use to search file, Windows 10 wont be able to search.
To use search, you would replace "-" with "*".


Example:
If file name is: Hello-saqib-7526.txt, and you want to search files with "saqib", you would use *saqib or *7526.


HTH

Cast to Int16 - Type Conversion

In VB.net, if you need to convert number/string (assuming its number) to Int16, there isn't any function as Cint16 as there is for CInt.

Instead you would write :
Convert.Int16(value)
or
CType(value, Int16)