Hi Terry,

I was curious if they mentioned that we'd be able to inherit from ActiveX controls. In VB it's my understanding that the toolbar controls are compiled OCX's (not classes like in VFP). To subclass them MS would have to give us some type of access to the compiled methods and properties. I'm told Borland has done this with JBuilder.....

The caption on a VB form is one thing, being able to subclass text boxes, buttons, etc... is (I think) something else.

Thanks


>In the movie, they showed a form that a hundred forms were based on and mentioned that you would be able to change the header label with the company name and then have all hundred change. So I would say UI is involved.
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>>FWIW, in VFP, inheritance on the UI *is* implementation inheritance. VB 7 is being labeled as a full blown OOP langauge. Microsoft never made this leap before. While I will not give into speculation, I did not see anything up on the website that stated inheritance on the UI was not supported....
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>>And yes, I prefer aggregation to inheritance for the middle-tier layer. But, for those folks that have pegged a high degree of reliance on inheritance in the middle tier, well, this should make for some interesting times....
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>>>>What....VB is getting inheritance......< bg >...
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>>>>OK folks, those that said VB is rotten to the core, that said it will never get inheritance.... stand up an be counted now... < bg >...
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>>>OK...I'll stand up and be counted here. I didn't watch the web cast, but I have looked over the documents posted on the msdn web site. It appears that only VB classes will get implementation inheritance...in other words...business objects, not UI. Aren't you the one that said implementation inheritance isn't important for middle-tier business objects?