[murdocsvan]

Hi, for a college project im designing a simple game. I need to use a set of variables over multiple forms, which can be open and edited. Can anyone help?

[Baez]

You need to use what is called a View State or a Session State. Take a look at this for more information: MSDN Session State

[murdocsvan]

Ahh, this doesn't work because its for ASP .NET, not Visual Basic .NET.

Still stuck with this one.

[Baez]

View State is available in VB.NET I believe. Session is an ASP function you're right. Didn't realize you were only working with VB.NET sorry.

[murdocsvan]

okay, but that article still doesnt make a lot of sense to me. what im asking is, how do i set global variables?

[Baez]

There are no global variables in VB so you need to use static variables.

Function updateSales(ByVal thisSale As Decimal) As Decimal
    Static totalSales As Decimal = 0
    totalSales += thisSale
    Return totalSales
End Function

' more code...

updateSales.totalSales = 2

Part of this code in on MSDN. I just added the end to show you how to use it after the procedure has terminated.

[murdocsvan]

Actually, thanks for the advice cvb, but it turned out there are a form of global variables in Visual Basic .NET.

My solution was to add a basic module to the project, and then to add the variables to those. Then i access the data by referencing the module from any of the forms.

I don't know the syntax for referencing the data yet, but this is what i was told by my teacher.

[Baez]

Haha well the syntax is almost identical to what I just showed you. The difference is that I used a function. Mine is a little more secure. But I imagine you don't have to worry about security at this point.