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

9.15. Wrap-Up

This chapter investigated the object-oriented programming concepts of classes, objects, methods and instance variables in more depth. The Time class case study presented a complete class declaration consisting of Private data, overloaded constructors for initialization flexibility, properties with Set and Get accessors for manipulating the class’s data, and methods that returned String representations of a Time object in two different formats.

We showed how the Me reference is used implicitly in a class’s non-Shared methods to access the class’s instance variables and non-Shared methods. We also showed how to use the Me reference explicitly to access the class’s shadowed instance variables explicitly.

You learned that a class can ...