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I'm a vb programmer by nature and I'm trying to teach myself C#. While programming in VB I was able to create an include file which defined some publically available constants subroutines and functions. Anytime I wanted to access one of these members I had the ability to place an include statement into the file I was working on and that would insert the file with all of my pre-defined members. That way I didn't have to cut and paste all the common info into each and every aspx file on which I was working. When I do my re-write in C# it doesn't recognize any of the members in my include file saying that the member doesn't exist in the defined class or namespace. Can anyone tell me how to write a function or define a constant that is accessible across multiple aspx pages within a site? I appologize ahead of time if this is a simple matter but as I said I'm just trying to learn the language.

kovan · Answer

Class blah { private blah(){}; public static string MYCONST = this is a monkey; } then u can do blah.myCONST where ever you need. basically in vb u could put stuff in a module and automatically it was global (provided u made them public) in c# its not like that all members/variables must belong to a class and the keyword static makes it available without having to create a blah object so you can refer to it as blah.MYCONST without doing anything else same goes for functions u can have static functions. i warn you c# is not as nice as vb it wont allow you to write sloppy code as u could in vb6(and hance vb.net for that matter)