Reviews the correct terms to use for creating, working with, and talking about objects. Introduces the Collection object, the With statement, and other techniques for working with objects.
Explains how to use the Object Browser to discover an object's properties, methods, and events; to find things in projects and libraries; and to add descriptions of your own objects.
Creating classes is easy you may be surprised to learn that you've already done it. A step by step procedure introduces object creation and lifetime issues.
Explains how to use property procedures to create properties that can validate the values that are assigned to them, and shows how to create many different kinds of properties.
Your objects can raise events that you handle in forms or in other objects.
Its easy to bind your object to a database or other source of data. Classes can act as either a source or a consumer of data.
Following a few simple rules can make your objects much easier to use, reuse, and share.
It's useful to be able to treat both a Tyrannosaur and a Flea as Animals. Polymorphism lets you do this through multiple interfaces which also provide new ways to let your programs evolve.
Once you've created objects, how do you incorporate them into programs, keep track of them, and clean up after them?
How do the objects you create from your classes relate to each other? Object models express the way objects contain other objects; this can be a powerful organizing principle for your programs.
Exposes some limitations with the Visual Basic Collection object, and shows how you can create your own collection classes.
Designers are what put the "visual" in Visual Basic. You've used Form designers, but there's a whole new world of possibilities being opened up by ActiveX Designers.
