September 2000
Intermediate to advanced
368 pages
10h 6m
English
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Using Object-Oriented Programming with VBScript
With the introduction of the VBScript 5.0 scripting engine, developers now have the ability to create classes in VBScript, much as they can in VB. The next section is intended for those new to object-oriented programming, and provides a quick introduction on the topic. The section following that discusses the VBScript syntax for creating and using classes.
Object-Oriented Programming 101
Object-oriented programming (OOP) is a programming methodology in which entities known as objects are used. Objects contain properties and methods; as the names suggest, a property describes the features of the object, while a method performs some action involving the object.
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True object-oriented programming is further defined as the ability for new objects to inherit properties and methods from existing objects, and for dynamic binding of derived object methods. VBScript’s implementation of OOP doesn’t support these two additional requirements, and is therefore not a true object-oriented programming language.
As an ASP developer, you’ve already used object-oriented code written by others. For example, ADO is nothing more than a collection of objects that can be used to access a database. Having the ability to treat a complex task as a black box is indeed beneficial. When using ADO, you don’t have to worry about what protocol is required to establish a connection to a database; rather, you simply use the Open method of the ADO Connection object. ...
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