The table also communicates an important implementation difference between the two languages: The lack of a "static" modifier for Visual Basic classes. Visual Basic includes the Module type, which ...

Launch Visual Basic 6 or Visual Basic Express. Open the project file in which you want to create a module and command button that creates an Excel spreadsheet from selected data.

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Clearly, Visual Basic can do static classes. But for reasons of history and clarity, it retained an earlier Module-based syntax, rather than adding a "Shared Class" syntax to its .NET implementation.