>I've been having 'discussions' here with my boss over the course of several weeks about the merits of programmatic class definition vs visual definition (in particular for customer classes that are used to encapsulate business functionality).
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I like to use the visual designer for visual classes; I like to use code for OLE Servers, ActiveX components, and Custom classes. I like the readability of source code for non-visual objects, and I like the visual representation in the class designer for visual objects.