Question Reference to a non-shared member requires reference?

j7linz

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Can somebody help me with this super simple VB question?

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With regards to that error message, it means that you're trying to access a member of an object without actually having the object. Consider the fact that programming objects are modelled on real-world objects. In the real world, if you want to drive a car then you actually have to have a car to drive, right? The same goes in OOP. If you have a Car class and it has a Drive method, you can't just do this:
Car.Drive()
because the Car class is just a description of what a Car object is and does. To call Drive on a Car object, you must create a Car object, e.g.
Dim myCar As New Car

myCar.Drive()
That's an example of what you're doing wrong. If you want information more specific to your particular case then provide us with information about your particular case.
 
By the way, if you know that the question is super simple then why do you need help with it? It always amuses me that people feel the need to tell us that the thing that they can't do is super simple. I think that it's up to us to decide that for ourselves. :)
 
Or you could also declare Drive as Shared, in which case you will be able to access it from the default instance.
Shared members are for functionality that is not tied to an instance of the class, you use the type name to qualify the instanceless shared member.
Default instance is something else, application framework for Windows Forms projects provide this, where by using the form type name it returns either a new instance or a previously generated one.
It could seem like the same, since in both cases you use the type name to qualify, but they are exactly opposite since one means "no instance" and the other means "one instance".
 
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