Mcgillivray, Donald [ITS]
donald.a.Mcgillivray at mail.sprint.com
Mon Mar 8 13:30:50 CST 2004
1) b 2) a/b 3) d Huge thanks, John, for offering your expertise on this topic. I'm largely self-taught and am always paying attention to stuff that appears on this list, gleaning whatever I can about methods, conventions, and common practices. My style has gone from "hugely undisciplined" to "moderately more disciplined" thanks to the stuff I've picked up here. I've been interested in learning and applying classes from the get-go, but have found little in the available literature that is aimed at folks with my background and skill level. Most books I've seen give very cursory coverage (basically mention that the functionality exists, but don't say much about how to use it) and forget about MS "Help". I'm really jazzed to have access to solid explanations with useful examples from an experienced expert. Finally, I think I'll be able to get my head around this stuff and put it to work. Thanks!! BTW, you obviously use a naming convention in your examples. It would be helpful to me (and perhaps to others who share my lack of formal training) to understand what the different prefixes denote, so I can better understand the distinctions between variables, etc.. Is the convention your own, or is it based on some widely used standard that I might study to get a better feel for it? Any help in this area is appreciated. Don McGillivray