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Building Applications and Components with Visual Basic .NET
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Building Applications and Components with Visual Basic .NET

by Ted Pattison, Dr. Joe Hummel
October 2003
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
592 pages
13h 42m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Shared Members versus Instance Members

Shared members have existed in other languages such as C++ and Java for years and are a very welcome addition to Visual Basic. In C#, C++, and Java, shared members are called “static” members. It would be easy to argue that the term “shared” used by Visual Basic .NET is more concise and more in line with reality. That's because the shared members of a class are actually shared across every object created from that class.

Chapter 3 introduced the concept of shared members. Recall that certain members of a type can be associated with the type itself as opposed to being associated with an instance of the type. Let's look at Listing 4.3, which shows a class with two fields—one instance and one shared.

Listing ...
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