Whats the VB version of C# extern? <Resolved>

How do you translate this to VB?

[DllImport("shell32.Dll")]
public static extern System.Int32 Shell_NotifyIcon(NotifyCommand cmd, ref NotifyIconData data);


Here is what I have but I don't know what the VB version of extern is?

<DllImport("shell32.Dll")> _
Public Shared External Function Shell_NotifyIcon(ByVal cmd As NotifyCommand, ByRef data As NotifyIconData) As Int32

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<DllImport("shell32.Dll")> _
Public Shared External Function Shell_NotifyIcon(ByVal cmd As NotifyCommand, ByRef data As NotifyIconData) As Int32

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I think its External.

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How do you translate this to VB?

[DllImport("shell32.Dll")]
public static extern System.Int32 Shell_NotifyIcon(NotifyCommand cmd, ref NotifyIconData data);

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Here, this should work, you use the Declare Function together to get the same effect as static extern:

Public Declare Function Shell_NotifyIcon(cmd As NotifyCommand, data As NotifyIconData) As System.Int32

(you might have to add byref or byval for the arguements)

Actually that is what I tried next, the Declare function but you can't have a Shared Declare function. It turns out that you don't need Extern in Vb. You can just use the DLLImports attribute or Declare (if you don't want it shared). Also I forgot to close the function the first time I tried DLlImports because I thought it was like a delegate with just a signature, but itstead its just a blank function.

Thanks for the help.