Chapter 16. Inheriting Forms and Creating Base Classes
After completing this chapter, you will be able to:
Use the Inheritance Picker to incorporate existing forms in your projects.
Create your own base classes with custom properties and methods.
Derive new classes from base classes by using the Inherits statement.
An important skill for virtually all professional software developers today is the ability to understand and utilize object-oriented programming (OOP) techniques. The changes associated with OOP have been gaining momentum in recent versions of Microsoft Visual Basic, including features that support inheritance, a mechanism that allows one class to acquire the interface and behavior characteristics of another class.
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