Friend vs Shared access modifier!

[fixthebug2003]

Hi,
Can someone point out the difference between Frien and Shared acess modifiers?

Fixthebug2003

 

[rosenk]

[tt]Shared[/tt] is not an access modifier. It's a keyword indicating that the declared Sub, Function, Property, Variable, etc. are not at the instance level, but at the class level. It doesn't change who is allowed to access the item in any way.

[tt]Friend[/tt] is an access modifier that indicates that only in the program in which the item is declared, or the same assembly, is it accessible.

 

[SqueakinSweep]

Friend members are visible throughout the project. Anything declared Friend is visible through the project, but not from other projects

Shared Members can be referenced across projects without creating an object Instance. But code in Shared members cannot access non shared members within its own class.

Shared fields or properties are equivalent to global variables. Change it for one instance of the class and it is changed for all instances.

Basically Shared is PUBLIC, and Friend is somewhere between PUBLIC and PRIVATE.

Phew....hard to explain, but hope that helps.

Sweep
...if it works dont mess with it

 

[JohnYingling]

Assuming that you have Visual Studio with the MSDN Help, press the Dynamic Help Tab, press the Index icon in Dynamic Help, set "filtered By" to Visual Basic, then enter "shared keyword" in "Look For". Did you know that there is a Shared Constructor, i.e. Shared Sub New()?

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