Microsoft® Visual Basic® 2010 Developer’s Handbook

Chapter 14. Operators for Custom Types

In this chapter:
Introduction to Operator Procedures
Preparing a Structure or Class for Operator Procedures
Implementing Operators
Implementing Comparison Operators
Implementing Type Conversion Operators for Use with CType
Implementing True and False Evaluation Operators
Problem Handling for Operator Procedures
Implementable Operators: an Overview

The operator procedures that were introduced with Microsoft Visual Basic 2005 could be called “convenience tools.”^[24] They make life easier for developers, and they don’t have any negative impact on the user. They also don’t provide anything to help you solve programming problems, but they help make classes or structures easier to use later on—and code easier ...