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Visual Basic Online Course - OOP

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V isual B asic O nline C ourse - OOP Visual Basic 2010 OOP OOP Introduction The original versions of Microsoft® Visual Basic® provided a mechanism for defining data structures in a user-defined type (UDT). A UDT encapsulates the data, but not the processing associated with that data. Processing was defined in global standard modules, often called BAS modules because of their .bas extension. The release of Visual Basic 4 dawned a new age for Visual Basic developers. Visual Basic took its first steps toward becoming an object-oriented programming (OOP) language by providing object-oriented features such as class modules.  A class module defines data as properties and the processing associated with that data as methods. By defining a class for each business entity, encapsulating data in properties and processing in methods, Visual Basic developers had object-based development. As Visual Basic evolved from