Visual Basic 2015 Unleashed

Fields

Fields are the places in which you store information to and read information from. They are declared in the form of class-level variables and differ from local variables in that they are declared at the method or property level. The following code shows how simple it is to declare fields:

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Class FieldsDemo    'a private field    Private counter As Integer    'a public field    Public publicCounter As Integer    Public Sub DoSomething()        'a local variable        Dim localVariable As Integer = 0    End SubEnd Class

Fields can be reachable from within the class and its members, and if you specify one of the appropriate qualifiers (such as Public), they can also be reached from the external world. Inside ...