Public Shared

[May]

greetings, i came across a function while browsing thru
the net. This function is created in a component. what i
am curious to know is, is this the correct way to create a
function using:
Public Shared Function name() As String
Don't we need some sort of parameter passing to use
the "As String"? Maybe something like this:
Public Shared Function name(ByVal fname As String)

i am also curious as to why we need to use "Public Shared"
and not just the keyword "Shared" alone. what is the
difference between these two? thanx!

[May]

sorry, but i still can get wat's the difference
between "Sharing" and "Public". I've tried out both ways
in creating a function in a component and i can still
reference the component from various different web
applications. So wat's the deal with shared and public?

>-----Original Message-----

>> Public Shared Function name() As String

>the function returns a string...
>so you call name like thing
>
>Dim myNamePlease As String = name()
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>

>> Public Shared Function name(ByVal fname As String)

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>Public means anyone on the outside that has an instanse

of the object can

>access it.
>Shared, (more like Static), means that the same member is

called if you have

>two objects both calling one member.
>
>it could have just been Shared in this case because the

automatic attribute

>is Public, unless Private or Protected is specified...
>
>Think that's right!
>
>
>
>"May" <marianne_too@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>news:00ba01c34629$02e177c0$a101280a@phx.gbl...

>> greetings, i came across a function while browsing thru
>> the net. This function is created in a component. what i
>> am curious to know is, is this the correct way to

create a

>> function using:
>> Public Shared Function name() As String
>> Don't we need some sort of parameter passing to use
>> the "As String"? Maybe something like this:
>> Public Shared Function name(ByVal fname As String)
>>
>> i am also curious as to why we need to use "Public

Shared"

>> and not just the keyword "Shared" alone. what is the
>> difference between these two? thanx!

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