Visual Studio Class Designer

Visual Studio 2010 offers an instrument known as Visual Studio Class Designer that has been a part of the IDE since the previous versions. You can design objects in a visual way by taking advantage of a graphical tool. You design objects; Visual Studio generates code. In this chapter you learn how to design objects according to object-oriented principles using the Class Designer to create a new implementation of the Person class and of a couple of derived classes. Before continuing to read, simply create a new, empty VB project for the Console. This is the base for your subsequent work.

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