July 2015
Intermediate to advanced
1300 pages
87h 27m
English
Reference types are represented by classes. Classes are probably the most important items in modern programming languages and are the basis of object-oriented programming. Reference types have one big difference from value types. Variables that declare a reference type do not store the data of the type itself; they just store an address to the data. In other words, they are just pointers to the data. To better explain (and understand) this fundamental concept, let’s look at an example. Consider the following class, Person, which exposes two simple properties:
Class Person Property FirstName As String Property LastName As StringEnd Class
You need to create an instance of such a ...