VB .NET Language in a Nutshell

Name

Declare Statement

Syntax

Syntax for subroutines:

[accessmodifier] Declare [Ansi|Unicode|Auto] Sub name Lib "libname" _
    [Alias "aliasname"] [([arglist])]

Syntax for functions:

[accessmodifier] Declare [Ansi|Unicode|Auto] Function name _
   Lib "libname" [Alias "aliasname"] [([arglist])] [As type]

accessmodifier

Use: Optional

Type: Keyword

accessmodifier can be any one of the following: Public, Private, Protected, Friend, or Protected Friend. The following table describes the effects of the various access modifiers. Note that Direct Access refers to accessing the member without any qualification, as in:

classvariable = 100

and Class/Object Access refers to accessing the member through qualification, either with the class name or the name of an object of that class.

	Direct Access scope	Class/Object Access scope
Private	Declaring class	Declaring class
Protected	All derived classes	Declaring class
Friend	Derived in-project classes	Declaring project
Protected Friend	All derived classes	Declaring project
Public	All derived classes	All projects

For more information, see Section 3.7 in Chapter 3.

Ansi

Use: Optional

Type: Keyword

Converts all strings to ANSI values.

Unicode

Use: Optional

Type: Keyword

Converts all strings to Unicode values.

Auto

Use: Optional

Type: Keyword

Converts the strings according to .NET rules based on the name of the method (or the alias name, if specified). If no modifier is specified, Auto is the default.

name

Use: Required

Type: String literal

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