Making public after being Private - Visual Basic

Question

Currently in the process of "self teaching" visual basic so apologies for the basic question

Maybe I am going about this the wrong way but I want to use btnTA_StartLog to create a file and activate Timer1 to log data in a specified interval. Problem being outlog is only defined in btnTA_startLog and not in the other 2 subs. How can I make the recently declared outlog public and accessible to the other subs?

Public Sub btnTA_StartLog_Click(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles btnTA_StartLog.Click
    Dim file As String = GetFileName(False, "csv", "Data Output")
    Dim outlog As IO.StreamWriter = My.Computer.FileSystem.OpenTextFileWriter(file, True)
    Timer1.Start()
    btnTA_StartLog.Enabled = False
    btbTA_LoggingStop.Enabled = True
End Sub

Private Sub Timer1_Tick(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles Timer1.Tick
    outlog.WriteLine(CStr(DateTime.Now) & "," & CStr(txbTA_Delivered_ml.Text) & "," & CStr(MyTC.Data.Temperature))
End Sub

Private Sub btbTA_LoggingStop_Click(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles btbTA_LoggingStop.Click
    Timer1.Stop()
    outlog.Close()
End Sub

Answer 1

not a vb.net person so I dont know the exact syntax but the rules are the same for c# which I do know.

Define outlog at the form level, ie outside any functions, in that way all functions can use it.