VB.NET Question - Static, Shared, Confused

[DaBrain]

Thanks for any replies in advance.

I am C# Developer messing with VB.NET because I must move MANY
Functions on a web site that are written in inline HTML <SCRIPT and I
want to put them all in assemblies and call them.

However, so that I do not have to instantiate all of them all of the
time. I want them to be static methods/Functions

I read somewhere to use "Shared" that it was the same as Static but I
have since TOLD that shared does not behave like Static does -- and may
cause nightmare for me, but i have no clue.

more specifically I was told that if I used Shared Property, that one
User Session may Get confused with another session because this will
always holds the same memory locations. "This is the concept of shared"
- i was told. But this make no sense to me as HTTP is stateless
protocol, but who the hell knows at this point, I want to be sure.

1) What is the Truth? Is "shared" the VB Path to C# Static?
and/Or
2) Anyone Explain "Shared" - if it has a C# Equivalent, what is it?
Thank you all!

[Peter Bromberg [C# MVP]]

static =C# = Shared=VB.NET

they represent the same data to different users, so what you heard is correct.

Peter

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"DaBrain" wrote:

Thanks for any replies in advance.

I am C# Developer messing with VB.NET because I must move MANY
Functions on a web site that are written in inline HTML <SCRIPT and I
want to put them all in assemblies and call them.

However, so that I do not have to instantiate all of them all of the
time. I want them to be static methods/Functions

I read somewhere to use "Shared" that it was the same as Static but I
have since TOLD that shared does not behave like Static does -- and may
cause nightmare for me, but i have no clue.

more specifically I was told that if I used Shared Property, that one
User Session may Get confused with another session because this will
always holds the same memory locations. "This is the concept of shared"
- i was told. But this make no sense to me as HTTP is stateless
protocol, but who the hell knows at this point, I want to be sure.

1) What is the Truth? Is "shared" the VB Path to C# Static?
and/Or
2) Anyone Explain "Shared" - if it has a C# Equivalent, what is it?
Thank you all!