Practical Standards for Microsoft® Visual Basic® .NET

Author James Foxall Pages 496 Disk N/A Level All Levels Published 07/31/2002 ISBN 9780735613560 Price $49.99 To see this book's discounted price, select a reseller below.	More Information About the Book Table of Contents Sample Chapter Index Companion Content Related Series Related Books About the Author Support: Book & CD Rate this book

Chapter 11: Programming Objects

• What Is an Object?
• Garbage Collection
• Directives
• 11.1 Early bind objects whenever possible.
• 11.2 Use .NET objects rather than API calls whenever possible.
• 11.3 Expose public properties, not public variables.
• 11.4 Always close what you open.
• 11.5 Use Overloads to create a property or method with the same name as another property or method but with a different argument list.
• 11.6 Create Dispose methods for all of your objects.
• 11.7 Create constructors for a class whenever possible.
• 11.8 Add a finalizer to a class only when necessary.
• 11.9 Force garbage collection only when necessary.
• 11.10 Use With.End With to increase performance and make code more readable.

11  Programming Objects

The purpose of this chapter isn't to provide you with every object-oriented best-practices technique possible—that would take at least a book in itself. Indeed, numerous books have been devoted to the subject of object-oriented programming and good object design. Instead, this chapter provides many best-practices for basic object manipulation and design; consider the standards presented in this chapter as baseline skills. To really be a solid object programmer you need to be adhering to these standards at the very least.

Last Updated: August 5, 2002

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