Question

I have been charged with porting a VB6 project into VB.NET. In vb6, if you were in a class separate to a particular variable, you could access that variable easily:

Public Class Foo
    Public k As Integer
End Class

Public Class Bar
    k = 12
End Class

In VB.NET, my understanding is that before you can use a variable in another class, you must declare a new instance of it:

Dim foobar As New Foo

This would be fine, but I have to access these variables from different classes and every time I declare a new instance, it wipes all old values from the variables, which I need. Can anybody help? I tried using Inherits statements but they presented many problems.

Thanks.
Nick

Answer 1

Your’re looking for the shared keyword. This makes the member available to other classes without having to have an instance of your class. See MSDN for more info