December 2001
Intermediate to advanced
360 pages
9h 6m
English
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Chapter 4. Building Classes and Assemblies with VB .NET
IN THIS CHAPTER
During the last three or so years, many VB developers have spent a great percentage of their time building COM components. These components are used as the middle-tier components in n-tier systems. The benefits of building n-tier applications are well known, and include
Code reuse
Elimination of many or all distribution headaches
Encapsulation of business logic to control business processes and access to databases
Not surprisingly, VB .NET lets you build components, but they are no longer COM components. COM components have certain elements such as class IDs (CLSIDs), ...