An evaluation of object-based programming with Visual Basic

Author

Dukovic, James M. ; Joyce, Daniel T.

Author_Institution

Shared Med. Syst. Corp., Malvern, PA, USA

fYear

1995

fDate

28-31 Mar 1995

Firstpage

346

Lastpage

351

Abstract

Two popular trends in the software industry today are object-oriented programming and programming with Microsoft Visual Basic, which is not considered to be an object-oriented programming language. This paper suggests that a full-featured object-oriented programming language is not needed to take advantage of many object-oriented concepts. To explore this supposition, one of the authors developed an application in Visual Basic using as many object-oriented concepts as possible. This paper describes that project and the observed capabilities and limitations of Visual Basic with respect to object-oriented programming. Included are a set of 22 programming guidelines for object-oriented programming with Visual Basic

Keywords

BASIC; object-oriented programming; visual languages; Microsoft Visual Basic; object-based programming; object-oriented concepts; programming guidelines; Application software; Computer industry; Computer languages; Graphical user interfaces; Guidelines; History; Object oriented programming; Programming profession; Software packages; Visual BASIC;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computers and Communications, 1995., Conference Proceedings of the 1995 IEEE Fourteenth Annual International Phoenix Conference on

Conference_Location

Scottsdale, AZ

Print_ISBN

0-7803-2492-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PCCC.1995.472470

Filename

472470