Using Objects
We have talked a lot about objects. If you have programmed in C++, many of the idioms related to object-oriented programming will seem familiar to you, but in this book, we make no assumptions about your experience with object-oriented programming. Although Chapter 7 discusses defining classes in detail, including coverage of inheritance, polymorphism, and encapsulation, this section briefly introduces a few basic concepts, so you will have no trouble working with objects for now.
Visual Basic .NET supports true object-oriented programming. Critical to this is the idea of inheritance and constructors. We'll defer our discussion of inheritance until Chapter 7, but you need to know about constructors now.
What Is a Constructor?
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