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Visual Basic 2015 Unleashed
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Visual Basic 2015 Unleashed

by Alessandro Del Sole
July 2015
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
1300 pages
87h 27m
English
Sams
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Shared Methods

Shared methods can be invoked without the need of creating an instance of the class that defines them. As in the previous members, shared methods are decorated with the Shared keyword. A common use of shared methods is within class libraries that act as helper repositories of functions. For example, you can have a class that provides methods for compressing and decompressing files using the System.IO.Compression namespace. In such a scenario, you do not need to create an instance of the class; in fact, shared methods just need to point to some files and not to instance data. The following code snippet provides an example of shared methods:

Public Class CompressionHelper    Public Shared Sub Compress(ByVal ...

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