Difference between method and function !!!

[Atran]

What is the difference between method and function !!!

[mwalts]

What is the difference between method and function !!!

Not a whole lot.

I believe the technical difference is that a function is not in a class, whereas a method is.

You'll see method and member function used interchangeably which is fine (a function that is a member of a class, get it? Correct term when discussing C++). Function and method shouldn't be used interchangeably , but often will be.

I'd suggest you don't sweat it, they both represent blocks of code that do something and might return a value.

-mwalts

[Atran]

Not a whole lot.

I believe the technical difference is that a function is not in a class, whereas a method is.

You'll see method and member function used interchangeably which is fine (a function that is a member of a class, get it? Correct term when discussing C++). Function and method shouldn't be used interchangeably , but often will be.

I'd suggest you don't sweat it, they both represent blocks of code that do something and might return a value.

-mwalts

Thanks for your help, it help me to build my short tutorial project.

[thiago777]

In VB .net, there are two types of methods: functions and subroutines.

Subroutine Declarations:

[CODE=vb]Sub method-name(parameter-list)
declarations and statements
End Sub[/CODE]
Function Declarations:

[CODE=vb]Function method-name(parameter-list) As return-type
declarations and statements
....
return expression
End Function[/CODE]
So again, function is a method type that you can use to return values, where sub routines does not return a value. In fact, as you can see, a function or subroutine in Vb.net are both methods.

Example of a shared function in the FCL framework:

[CODE=vb]dim quad as integer = math.pow(2,4)[/CODE]
That will make, of course, quad = 16.
Hope that helped!