Chapter 10. Inheritance and Polymorphism
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Visual Basic .NET supports inheritance. VB6 did not. VB6 supported interface implementation, which is a facility of the Component Object Model (COM). Why Microsoft chose to implement COM and interfaces before classes and inheritance is anybody's guess, but Visual Basic .NET supports both interfaces and inheritance. The net result is that Visual Basic .NET is significantly more powerful and has features and capabilities consistent with the most advanced languages available today.
Through version 6, we said that Visual ...
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