Visual Basic Building Base CodeVisual Basic - Building Base Code
Starting with Bases Loaded
Building Base Code
Why Base Code?
What to Include in a Template
Helper Functions
Common Forms
ActiveX Components
Subclassing
Subclassing Functions and
Subroutines
What Are the Benefits of
Subclassing?
Problems with Subclassing
Subclassing Objects
Common Forms
Hide Your API Calls
Registry Tools
Resource Files
Custom Controls
Documentation
The Object Browser
Help Files
HTML
Building Your Own Base Code
Where Do You Begin?
Who Should Build It?
Source or Executable?
The Business Case
Changing Base Code
Templates
Summary
In this tutorial, we'll look at some of the reasons for using base code and some of the techniques that can be applied to creating your own base code. Finally we'll look at how Microsoft Visual Basic templates can be used to provide frameworks for common forms, classes, and modules.