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Asked: 2026-05-11T06:04:31+00:00

This may be a dumb question – but why are shared methods availible on

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This may be a dumb question – but why are shared methods availible on types and instances in VB.net – am I wrong to assume they are the equivalent to C# static methods?

i.e

MyClass.MySharedMethod()  dim mc as new MyClass() mc.MySharedMethod()

Why am I allowed to do this? What possible advantage is there to this – all I can see this doing is confusing people when using intellisense. I’m sure this has to do with some convention from classic VB6 by why bother bring this up to .NET – it just seems so broken to me.

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  1. Yes, it’s basically a hangover from VB6. Java lets you do this too, but most IDEs warn you these days I believe.

    And yes, it’s a really bad idea. The most obvious example of it being bad is Thread.Sleep:

    Dim t as new Thread(...) t.Sleep(1000)

    Which thread is sleeping? The current one. Doh!

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