Now we get to the meat and potatoes of object oriented programming. All programs,except the simplest, require constructing one or more custom classes with multiple properties and methods for performing tasks related to the object. I now discuss how to make custom classes.

Strings and StringBuilders

One of the built in reference types within the .NET Framework you will commonly use is the System.String type. System.String has a set of members for manipulating text. For example here is a simple quick method for finding and replacing text:

Reference types store an address of their data, aka “pointer” on the portion of the memory called the “stack”. The actual data to which the pointer refers to is stored in an area of memory called the “heap”. Because reference types directly store the address “pointer” to the data rather than the data itself, assigning one reference variable to another doesn’t copy the data over. Instead, it merely creates a second copy of the “pointer”, which also refers to the same memory on the heap as the original.

This blog  post precedes a series of code tales during my trip through the prerequisites and requirements for completing the Microsoft Certified Professional Developer (MCPD) Windows Developer .NET 3.5 on Visual Studio 2008 certification. Quite a mouthful wouldn’t you say?

 Well, it took a while but I finally decided on a domain name that satisfied me and created this blog site (thanks Kelly and MonkK). My friend and partner in crime, MonkK suggested I set up my blog site with the Drupal content management system.