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ingredient_15939
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Reputation: 3134

Is there a C# equivalent of VB.NET's "Static"?

The VB.NET Static declaration:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/z2cty7t8.aspx

The only reference I can find to this question is from 2008:

http://forums.asp.net/t/951620.aspx?what+is+the+equivalent+of+static+from+vb+net+in+c+

Is there an equivalent in recent versions of C#, or still not present? Is there anything particularly wrong about using Static in VB.NET?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 588

Answers (2)

SteveCinq
SteveCinq

Reputation: 1963

Personally, I like the VB procedure-level Static, even if it's not "pure" enough for some folk.

  1. You can set it in declaration and forget it:

    Static oClient As HttpClient = New HttpClient()

  2. There's no checking whether a module-level variable needs to be instantiated or not:

    If moClient Is Nothing Then moClient = New HttpClient()

And, silly me, I always expect that there is equivalency between C#.NET and VB.NET but I've learned that clinging to that concept is folly, unfortunately.

Upvotes: 0

Konrad Kokosa
Konrad Kokosa

Reputation: 16878

C# does not support it and probably won't be because it somehow violates object programming idea of state being part of object, not a method.

Of course one can say that it is only syntactic sugar, and he/she will be event quite right. But still, looking through class code, we expected description of its state variables as a fields of class. Otherwise we should find for it in each and every method.

So this can be simply seen about some high-level decision and your millage may vary here.

Upvotes: 1

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