This book will give you a deep and thorough understanding of the implications of all the decisions you can make in designing a class, so you are equipped to develop classes that are robust, flexible and reusable. In short, this book will take you from a theoretical understanding of the basic principles of OO programming to the ability to write well-designed classes in actual applications.

Learn how to create robust, flexible, reusable classes with Visual Basic .NET Understand the different kinds of types and how classes relate to the .NET type framework See how .NET's delegate-based event system works, and how to control and exploit inheritance in types

Auteur
Andy Olsen is a freelance consultant engaged in training, consultancy, and development work in Microsoft .NET and related technologies. Andy studied physics at Southampton University in England, and he began his professional life as a C developer. As the 1990s came and went, Andy migrated to C++, Visual Basic, Java, and object-oriented analysis and design using UML. He has been using Microsoft development tools and technologies since 1987, and has fond memories and many tall stories to tell of times gone by.

Contenu
Defining Types.- Type Members.- Methods.- Constructors and the Object Lifecycle.- Properties.- Events and Delegates.- Inheritance and Polymorphism.- Code Organization and Metadata.