An evaluation of object-based programming with Visual Basic

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.<
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