Chapter 7. Class Fundamentals

In This Chapter

• Declaring Classes

• Fields

• Properties

• Scope

• Methods

• Partial Classes

• Partial Methods

• Constructors

• Shared Members

• Common Language Specifications

In your everyday life, you perform all sorts of activities using objects. You use a fork to eat; you drive your car to reach your office; and you spend money to buy things. Each of these objects has its own characteristics. There are hundreds of car models; they have different colors, different engines, and different accessories, but they all are cars. Object-oriented programming (OOP) is similar to this view of life. In fact, OOP relies on objects; for example, you can have an object that enables working on files or another object that ...

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