This was not intended to actually be a book-specific question, I just used 
the book's example as an illustration of what was confusing to me.  Maybe 
I was bit unclear about what I was actually trying to find out -- a little 
more detail on the distinction between (and usage of) PRIVATE vs PROTECTED 
(my main question being why might they be used outside of an explicit 
class definition).   I'm more concerned that maybe I'm missing a big 
picture issue, and not necessarily looking for the exact reasons it was 
used in the book.



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> > I was going through the MyCalendar example in Ch.14 of Beginning 
ASP.NET 
1> > .0 with VB.NET and I got a bit sidetracked.  The example uses 
Protected 
S> > ubroutines and Private Functions (inside a single script block). I 
was 
w> > ondering what the purpose/reasoning behind this might be (pages 516-
519 
a> > re the pages in question).  

> > Without an explicit Class definition, why would Protected or Private 
be 
u> > sed for Sub/Functions? I want to say this has to do with the aspx 
page 
b> > eing converted into a class definition, but for some reason it just 
d> > oesn't click as to why this would matter.  Maybe I'm just fuzzy in 
g> > eneral on the distinction/usage for Protected and Private.  Any help 
w> > ould be appreciated.