Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft® Visual C#™ .NET in 24 Hours

Summary

Object-oriented programming is an advanced methodology that enables you to create more robust applications; programming classes is the foundation of OOP. In this hour, you learned how to create classes, which are the templates used to instantiate objects. You also learned how to create a custom interface consisting of properties and methods and how to use the classes you've defined to instantiate and manipulate objects by way of object variables.

You've also learned how you should implement a Dispose() method for classes that consume resources and how it is important to call Dispose() on objects that implement it to ensure that the object frees up its resources as soon as possible. Finally, you learned how objects aren't destroyed as ...