Visual Basic 2005 for Programmers: Deitel Developer Series, Second Edition

Chapter 9. Classes and Objects: A Deeper Look

My object all sublime I shall achieve in time.

—W. S. Gilbert

Is it a world to hide virtues in?

—William Shakespeare,Twelfth Night

This above all: to thine own self be true.

—William Shakespeare, Hamlet

Don’t be “consistent,” but be simply true.

—Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Objectives

In this chapter you will learn: What class scope is and how it affects access to class members. To create overloaded constructors that can initialize objects of a class in a variety of ways. To use partial classes to enable one class to span multiple source-code files. How composition enables you to construct classes that are “made out of” other classes. To use Me to refer to the current object’s members. How garbage ...