SHARED: Declaration context

[sougata12]

SHARED can only be sued in a Module level. As per MSDN documentation, Module level means the following:

within a class, structure, module, or interface but not within a procedure or block

If that be the case can anyone explain why am I getting an error (see below code) in the statement Public Shared a As Integer

Module Module1
Public Shared a As Integer 'Not allowed

Public Class Car
Public Shared b As Integer 'Allowed
End Class

Sub Main()
Shared e As Integer 'Not allowed
End Sub

End Module


I believe it is satisfying all the condition of being within a module but not being within a block or procedure. So why the error?

Also, I understand from the above code that SHARED cannot be used within Sub Main() because then it violates the condition of not being within a procedure or block. Is my understanding correct?


Regards,

Sougata Ghosh



Sougata Ghosh

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