Hi, apologies is this is a newbie question or if it is the wrong place to post this. I have written several VB .NET "solutions" and will continue to write several more. I have certain code which is re-used like functions for example. I want to separate the functions, which do not change very much from the new code which uses the functions.
So far I have worked out how to separate the "function" code into either a separate "class" (which then needs to be both "imported" and "instantiated" in my code each time I want to use a particular function) or a separate module that has the functions defined publicly (in which case I don't seem to need to do anything as long as the module is in the sulution explorer window).
In Matlab for example there can be a whole directory tree of functions all in different categories but that are all included in such a way that I don't need to do anything special each time I use the function. It is just sort of implied that all the functions in the tree are available in all code.
Is there a way to set up a set of functions that are always available to me without a lot of hassle?

Thanks in advance for any direction you can provide.

In my opinion, your idea to separate the functions into classes is much more legible as it makes your code more easy to maintain.
As for the way Matlab works, it sure gives you the opportunity of making all the functions available but with a huge cost of program overhead (loading and unloading).
Taking the way of maintaining separate code files for similar functions is always advised as its much easier to load and also maintain them.
Hope this sheds some light on your issue.

Regards.