title: Making Class methods instead of Instance Methods in VB.NET
body: <p>I am not sure how clear my question is by the title, but I am trying to make Class methods instead of Instance methods in Visual Basic that way I don't have to waste memory and code creating temporary objects to execute methods that don't need instance variables.</p>
  
  <p>I am not sure if you can do that in VB but I know you can in Objective-C by using either a "+" or "-" sign in front of the method declaration. And in C++ (at least I think, I can't remember) you put the <em>static</em> keyword or <em>const</em> keyword in front of the function.</p>
  
  <p>How would I do this in VB if it is possible? Or should I just make a separate set of functions that are not members of a class?</p>