August 31, 2000

Non obvious uses for the LIKE operator

LIKE is probably the VB operator is most underutilized if compared to its potential. The most immediate use for this operator is to check that a string begins or ends with a given pattern. For example, it is simple to check that a Product ID is made up by a

Call One Constructor from Another Constructor

Constructor is a special kind of method which gets called automatically whenever the object is created. One class can have zero, 1 or more then 1constructors. Basically, you can overload constructor method. Now that you can have more then one constructor, you may want to reuse the code that you