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Question

I'm a little new to classes on VB.NET (and to whole OOP concept in general) so sorry in advance for my poor explanation.
I've created a class like so:
Public Class MyApp
private var1 as integer = 2
Private Function getProfile(id As Integer)
'Imaginary server request according to ID
'Following that was received:
Dim name As String = "John"
Dim age As integer = 30
End Function
End Class
I want to be able to call getProfile by using myApp.getProfile and that's something I can handle.
What I can't manage is displaying only the age or name.
Something like this:
MyApp.getProfile(4341).age
How can I achieve something like this? Like having sub-functions in a function.

Answer 1

To call the method that way it needs to be static (marked Shared) and public. To make it return the name and age as properties you need a class with those properties. Example:
Public Class MyApp
Public Shared Function GetProfile(id As Integer)
Dim name As String = "John"
Dim age As integer = 30
return New ServerResult(name, age)
End Function
End Class
Public Class ServerResult
Public Name as String
Public Age as Integer
Public Sub New(n as String, a as Integer)
Name = n
age = a
End Sub
End Class
Usage example:
Dim age as Integer = MyApp.GetProfile(42).Age
Another:
Dim result As ServerResult = MyApp.GetProfile(1337)
Dim info As String = String.Format("{0}, {1}", result.Name, result.Age)
Note: Making the method static is based on how you wanted to call it. You might want to create an instance of the MyApp class instead, and have a method that is not static.