Visual Basic .NET Programming Language, The

Chapter 10. Methods

A method is a collection of executable statements used to accomplish some task. Methods are the primary way to take action in a program.

Subroutines and Functions

A method is either a function or a subroutine. A subroutine performs some action and returns. For example:

Sub Main()
  Console.WriteLine("Hello, world!")
End Sub

A function, on the other hand, calculates a value that is returned to the caller when the function ends. When a function is declared, it specifies the type of the value that it returns in much the same way that a variable specifies its type. For example, the following function calculates the sum of two numbers and returns the result.

 Function Add(ByVal x As Integer, ByVal y As Integer) As Integer Return x + ...