Chapter 16. Inheriting Forms and Creating Base Classes
After completing this chapter, you will be able to:
Use the Inheritance Picker to incorporate existing forms in your projects.
Create your own base classes with custom properties and methods.
Derive new classes from base classes by using the Inherits statement.
An important skill for virtually all professional software developers today is the ability to understand and utilize object-oriented programming (OOP) techniques. Although Microsoft Visual Basic 6 offers several object-oriented programming features, experts say that it lags behind the "true" OOP languages, such as Microsoft Visual C++, because it lacks inheritance, a mechanism that allows one class to acquire the interface and behavior ...
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