Mastering Microsoft® Visual Basic® 2008

Chapter 10. Building Custom Classes

Classes are practically synonymous with objects and they're at the very heart of programming with Visual Basic. The controls you use to build the visible interface of your application are objects, and the process of designing forms consists of setting the properties of these objects, mostly with point-and-click operations. The Framework itself is an enormous compendium of classes, and you can import any of them into your applications and use them as if their members were part of the language. You simply declare a variable of the specific class type, initialize it, and then use it in your code.

You have already worked with ListViewItem objects; they're the items that make up the contents of a ListView control. ...