A Newb Question about Functions

I'm new to the world of ".NET" -- fresh out of VB6 I am.

Anyway, I just spent the past 20 mins trying to write a function and have it called correctly.

Apparently, I need to build the function within the PUBLIC CLASS frmMain (my main form) ?? Any effort to try and write the function out on it's own just causes issues.

I just wanted to understand why that is and hopefully grab a high level explanation from someone on how the new coding screen is setup. Let's say I'm writing a function that validates a value entered on my form. Am I correct in putting the function in the form class or should it go elsewhere?

all functions and subs need to be inside the class. Outside is used for other stuff such as global-scope variables. To see exactly how a function should be declared, start your project and go to an event handler such as form_load on the right combobox. It will show you where they go.

Note that this isn't different than vb6. If you were to load up the vb6 form file in a text editor, it's pretty much formatted similar but the IDE hides it.

Ahhh....

Makes perfect sense. Thanks.