Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft® Visual C#™ .NET in 24 Hours

Summary

In this hour, you learned about objects. You learned how objects have properties, which are attributes that describe the object. Some properties can be set at design time using the Properties window, and most can also be set at runtime in Visual C# .NET code. You learned that referencing a property on the left side of the equal sign has the effect of changing a property, whereas referencing a property on the right side of the equal sign retrieves the property's value.

In addition to properties, you learned that objects have executable functions, called methods. Like properties, methods are referenced by using a “dot” at the end of an object reference. An object may contain many methods and properties, and some properties can even be objects ...