Properties in VB.NET

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Properties are one of the fundamental things any object oriented language must support. Properties are not new for the VB6 programmer, but I feel that properties have not really been given the importance they des...

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erve. Properties abstract the data from being manipulated directly by the client. Furthermore, properties also facilitate the defining of actions and data of the interface. VB.NET properties are very simple to understand and define. For example:

Further, adding simple syntax like ReadOnly or WriteOnly specifies that the property if readonly or writeonly. For example: