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Visual Basic Quickstart Guide

By : Aspen Olmsted
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Visual Basic Quickstart Guide

By: Aspen Olmsted

Overview of this book

Whether you’re an absolute beginner or an experienced developer looking to learn the Visual Basic language, this book takes a hands-on approach to guide you through the process. From the very first chapters, you'll delve into writing programs, exploring core concepts such as data types, decision branching, and iteration. Additionally, you’ll get to grips with working with data structures, file I/O, and essential object-oriented principles like inheritance and polymorphism. This book goes beyond the basics to equip you with the skills to read and write code across the entire VB family, spanning VB Script, VBA, VB Classic, and VB.NET, enabling you to handle legacy code maintenance with ease. With clear explanations, practical examples, and hands-on exercises, this book empowers you to tackle real-world software development tasks, whether you're enhancing existing projects or embarking on new ones. It addresses common challenges like distinguishing between the variations of the VB programming language to help you choose the right one for your projects. Don't let VB's extensive legacy daunt you; embrace it with this comprehensive guide that equips you with practical, up-to-date coding skills to overcome the challenges presented by Visual Basic's rich history of over two decades.
Table of Contents (27 chapters)
Free Chapter
1
Part 1:Visual Basic Programming and Scripting
9
Part 2:Visual Basic Files and Data Structures
14
Part 3:Object-Oriented Visual Basic
20
Part 4:Server-Side Development

One-to-one has-a relationships

In VB, a one-to-one has-a relationship between classes refers to a situation where one class contains an instance of another class as a field or property. This relationship represents an association between the two classes, where the first class directly references an instance of the second class. Here’s an example of a one-to-one has-a relationship in VB:

Public Class Car
    Public Property Engine As Engine
    ' Other car-related properties and methods
End Class
Public Class Engine
    ' Engine-related properties and methods
End Class

In the preceding example, we have two classes: Car and Engine. The Car class has a property called Engine of the Engine type and represents the car’s engine. This relationship indicates that a car has a single engine.

To use this relationship, you would typically create instances of the classes and set the appropriate values:

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