The Classic: Cannot refer to an instance member of a class from within a shared method…

I am sure you’ve gotten this before:

Cannot refer to an instance member of a class from within a shared method

Well, instead of all the reasons why, I will just tell you one simple solution:

Pretend you’re doing this:

Public Shared Function getSomething() As Integer
   For Each tControl As Control In FlowLayoutPanel1.Controls    Next

End Function

It will ERROR.

Now Add the form name:

Public Shared Function getSomething() As Integer
   For Each tControl As Control In sampleForm.FlowLayoutPanel1.Controls   Next

End Function

And run again!

The Classic: Cannot refer to an instance member of a class from within a shared method…

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