Basic help function visibility

[triplemaya]

My program is crashing because of an error "conversion from string "" to type integer is not valid"
The program gets a number of values from text boxes, so I'm assuming this is where the problem is, and I'm presuming it is when CInt is called on an empty string.
I've written a little function MyCInt which should solve the problem.

Public function MyCInt(ByVal IText AsString) As Integer
If iText = "" Then Return 0
Return CInt (iText)
end function

The trouble is, it is not seen outside the class in which I declare it. Do I need to have this be a class? I need a quick and simple way of trying this out, especially since I don't know if it is going to work. Is there something like a public static function which can be seen globally?

This is I am sure a really basic question, and my apologies for not knowing how to look this up. This code has been delivered 'finished', it is live on a site, and I am supposed to be marketing it not fixing it! I have googled about a bit, but I don't know what to look for.

Sorry if this is in the wrong place, I didn't know where else to put it.

 

[vis781]

If you want to make members visible without having an instance of the class then you need to use the 'shared' keyword (static)

Private Shared
Friend Shared
Public Shared
etc..

Alternatively you can put this code inside of a module where it will be set to shared by default.

 

[triplemaya]

Thanks

Many thanks. Got it all working.