September 2002
Intermediate to advanced
496 pages
10h
English
In Chapter 9, we placed the first bricks of the PerlNET programming foundation by introducing the simple examples of using .NET classes. In this chapter, we take this topic further and discuss .NET components in detail. First, we give general information about .NET types exposed by Framework components. System.Object, the base class type from which all types in .NET inherit, is discussed. Then we concentrate on incorporating components into our programs and discuss practical issues, such as how to construct an object of a class type exposed by a component, how to work with properties and fields of objects, how to call methods, and more. You should pay special attention to how parameters ...