In my post about refactoring code, I wrote on how you can tell how good a programmer is by looking at his code. That got me to thinking: Some stuff that seems simple, is sometimes hard to remember.

For instance, if you want a class to only have shared methods, you should mark it as not inheritable and set the constructor to private.

Public NotInheritable Class SomeClass

Private Sub New()
End Sub

Public Shared Function SomeMethod() as boolean
End Function

End Class

public sealed class SomeClass 
{ 
    
    private SomeClass() 
    { 
    } 
    
    public static bool SomeMethod() 
    { 
    } 
}