Visual Basic 2005 for Programmers: Deitel Developer Series, Second Edition

7.7. Notes on Declaring and Using Methods

There are three ways to call a method:

1. Using a method name by itself to call another method of the same class or module—such as Maximum(number1, number2, number3) in line 56 of Fig. 7.4.

2. Using a variable that contains a reference to an object, followed by a dot (.) and the method name to call a method of the referenced object—such as the method call in line 10 of Fig. 7.5, gradeBook1.DisplayGradeReport(), which calls a method of class GradeBook from the Main method of module GradeBookTest.

3. Using the class or module name and a dot (.) to call a Shared method of a class or module (all methods of a module are implicitly Shared). One example of this is Math.Sqrt(900.0) in Section 7.5.

Note that a Shared method ...