Visual Basic lets you create a default property or method by simply selecting the “(Default)” item in the combo box that appear if you click the Advanced button in the
The left-most listbox in the first page in the ActiveX Control Interface Wizard includes all the properties exposed by the constituent controls currently on the UserControl’s surface. Unfortunately, this list
If you want to implement a Variant property that can also be assigned an object, you must be very careful about how you build the corresponding Property procedures. To begin
Writing code from scratch, without any prior design or plan, is a very bad programming practice. However, the opposite, namely over-engineering, can be just as harmful. In essence, over engineering
typedef names can hide intricate syntactic constructs such as pointers to functions and template instances. However, many novices simply don’t know how to declare a typedef, or worse yet
The terms “deep copy” and “shallow copy” refer to the way objects are copied, for example, during the invocation of a copy constructor or assignment operator. In a deep copy
Although the syntax of pointers to members may seem a bit confusing at first, it is consistent and resembles the form of ordinary pointers, with the addition of the class
Although pointers to members behave very much like ordinary pointers, behind the scenes, they are not necessarily represented as pointers. In fact, a single pointer to member usually consists of
Pointers to member functions consists of the member function’s return type, the class name followed by ::, the pointer’s name, and the function’s parameter list. For example, a pointer to