Calling TextBox1.text from Shared sub main( )

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• icon67

  November 2002

  try putting the name of the form that the textbox is on in from of the code... for instance instead of Me.textbox1.text put form1.textbox1.text. That is what i did when i had to make my subs shared and it worked... for a while anyway.
  
  : Hey guys,
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  : I'm new at this vb.net thing and have a question. Why can't I make a call to TextBox1.text from within the shared sub main(). It tells me "Cannot refer to an instance member of a class from within a shared method, bla, bla ,bla..."
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  : What am I missing?
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• iwilld0it

  December 2002

  : Hey guys,
  :
  : I'm new at this vb.net thing and have a question. Why can't I make a call to TextBox1.text from within the shared sub main(). It tells me "Cannot refer to an instance member of a class from within a shared method, bla, bla ,bla..."
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  : What am I missing?
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  Shared methods can only access shared properties. Reason being that the runtime has no way to determine which object instances property value to use.
  
• RSlayden

  December 2002

  : : Hey guys,
  : :
  : : I'm new at this vb.net thing and have a question. Why can't I make a call to TextBox1.text from within the shared sub main(). It tells me "Cannot refer to an instance member of a class from within a shared method, bla, bla ,bla..."
  : :
  : : What am I missing?
  : :
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  : Shared methods can only access shared properties. Reason being that the runtime has no way to determine which object instances property value to use.
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  If you need to use the value in your textbox throughout the program, you will need a global variable. Assign the value to the variable, then call the variable, not the textbox.text property.