Monday, Sept 15th, 2003, 6:45PM

Bob gives us further grounding in object orientated programmingthis month. OOP is a big topic. If you missed last month's presentation, you will still benfit from this talk.

Introduction to 
Object Oriented Development in VB.NET
  with Robert Tattersall

 Monday, Aug 18th, 2003, 6:45PM      
  Microsoft, 6th floor, 201 Jones Road., Waltham MA (directions)  Free and open to the public 

The .NET version of Visual Basic is a fully capable Object Oriented Language.  Visual Basic programmers moving to .NET need to undestand Object Oriented development techniques before being able to fully take advantage of these OO features.  

The presentation will define basic OO terms such as  class, object, constructor, overloaded method, and overriden method.  We'll cover polymorphism, inheritance, and encapsulation.   Included will be basic design considerations, for example: how to recognize objects, methods, and properties in a problem statement; "is-a" relationships; and scoping.  A non-trivial VB.NET coding example will put all these definitions and design considerations to work.

Our Speaker:

Mr. Tattersall has more than 20 years of development experience using a variety of languages, including VB and C++.  He attended Northeastern University and completed a BSCS at Daniel Webster College in Nashua NH. Before entering consulting he most recently held positions as Sr. Software Engineer at BrassRing and Compaq, and Technical Project Leader at Compaq.  Since working with C++ he has had a keen interest in Object Oriented development and has been putting it to use with VB.NET for about a year.  Mr. Tattersall can be reached at rtatt@comcast.net.