How to Create Global Variables In Visual Basic

Today's post is a quick one, brought about by necessity when I was doing my programming homework this afternoon. In order to do my assignment, I had to use VB's variant of Global Variables, which, it turns out, is a major pain in the... you get the idea. This brief tutorial is specific to Visual Studio 2017, as that is the compiler that I use for Visual Basic.

• Right Click on the solution name in Solution Explorer
• Select Add > Module

• Name the module with reference to the project name as you might be making a lot of these.

• Write Module like so

       Module /modulename/

          'Global Variables for use throughout the program

           Public Var1 As Type

           Public Var2 As Type

           Public Var3 As Type

           'etc...

       End Module

• Save Module
• Use variables throughout the program