Declares the name of a module and introduces the definition of the variables, properties, events, and procedures that the module comprises. A `Module` statement defines a reference type available ...

The table also communicates an important implementation difference between the two languages: The lack of a "static" modifier for Visual Basic classes. Visual Basic includes the Module type, which ...

Clearly, Visual Basic can do static classes. But for reasons of history and clarity, it retained an earlier Module-based syntax, rather than adding a "Shared Class" syntax to its .NET implementation.

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