Visual Basic.NET Class Design Handbook: Coding Effective Classes (Programmer to programmer) - Softcover

Olsen, Andy; Allison, Damon; Speer, James

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1861007086 ISBN 13: 9781861007087

Publisher: WROX Press Ltd, 2002

Synopsis

* 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.

About this title

Synopsis

The basic unit of code in .NET is the class. The most important skills Visual Basic .NET programmers need to develop are those required to develop effective, usable classes. This book aims to act as a practical guide to the issues and choices that face a VB.NET programmer each time they sit down to code a class. Which methods and properties should be public, when should class members be used, what constructors should you provide, when and how should you override methods in the System.Object class, when should a method throw an exception, when should you fire events, and so on. All of these questions are going to be encountered every day by VB.NET programmers. All of them need to be informed by an understanding of the way classes operate within the .NET runtime, and the way other code interacts with the classes you write. This text seeks to provide practical solutions to everyday issues, and is illustrated with plenty of code examples and counter-examples. The objective is to help you, a VB.N

About the Author

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: WROX Press Ltd
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 1861007086
• ISBN 13: 9781861007087
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 350