Visual Basic Fundamentals for Absolute Beginners: (16) More about Classes and Methods

In this lesson we dig into more details about Classes - what exactly happens when you create a new instance of a class? What exactly is a reference to an instance of a class? How is it affected when you pass the reference to a method? We also review overloaded methods, talk about static versus instance methods, constructors and more.

Full course outline:

• Mod 01: Series Introduction
• Mod 02: Installing Visual Studio Express 2013 for Windows Desktop
• Mod 03: Creating Your First Visual Basic Program
• Mod 04: Dissecting the First Visual Basic Program You Created
• Mod 05: Quick Overview of the Visual Basic Express Edition IDE
• Mod 06: Declaring Variables and Assigning Values
• Mod 07: Branching with the If..Then..Else Decision Statement
• Mod 08: Operators, Expressions and Statements
• Mod 09: For..Next Iterations
• Mod 10: Creating Arrays of Values
• Mod 11: Creating and Calling Simple Overloaded Helper Methods
• Mod 12: While Iterations and Reading Data from a Text File
• Mod 13: Working with Strings
• Mod 14: Working with Dates
• Mod 15: Understanding and Creating Classes
• Mod 16: More about Classes and Methods
• Mod 17: Working with Classes and Inheritances in the .NET Framework Class Library
• Mod 18: Understanding Namespaces and Adding References to Assemblies
• Mod 19: Understanding Modules, Scope and Utilizing Accessibility Modifiers
• Mod 20: Enumerations and the switch Decision Statement
• Mod 21: Gracefully Handling Exceptions
• Mod 22: Working with Collections
• Mod 23: Filtering and Managing Data in Collections using LINQ
• Mod 24: Understanding Event Driven Programming
• Mod 25: Getting Familiar with the My Namespace
• Mod 26: Where To Go From Here