Summary
Even if you have years of experience using a previous version of Visual Basic, it may take some effort on your part to embrace all of the new OOP support provided in Visual Basic .NET. After all, using fields, constructors, methods, and properties effectively requires an understanding of some nontrivial concepts. Nevertheless, learning these concepts and the syntax that goes along with them is the price of admission that must be paid when you decide to design and write software with Visual Basic .NET. This chapter introduced the many kinds of members you can add to a class, with one exception—events. We will defer the discussion of events until Chapter 8.
The redesign of the Visual Basic language to be a first-class citizen in terms of ...
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