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About a year ago I finished writing a book for Wrox regarding Visual Basic .NET Class Design concepts. The book was aimed at encouraging correct design principles with the new OO features of VB. Designing effective classes that don't need a huge amount of maintenance is a skill and the book was attempting to help bridge the gap that this skill required.

The truth is, it is impossible to write code in .NET that isn't OO as everything you do follows some form of inheritance. The book was aimed at those who were familiar with .NET, the Visual Basic language and basic OO concepts.

However, this isn't a plug for the book. After the demise of Wrox, any sales of the book don't benefit me so there is little point in plugging a book that I have little care in you buying :o)

When I first started working with Wrox they had no brief in order for me to work with and so the first couple of draft I produced never even made it into the book. The chapters were very good, just not what was required for the book. As they have been sitting on my hard drive now since then, and Wrox have now disappeared off the face of the earth - I thought I would release them privately. I was never paid to write these chapters and so am perfectly within my rights to publish them.

I hope you enjoy them both

Article PDF download: VB NET, Class Design Handbook - Events

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