Thank you. But nowhere in my program I have created an instance of Form1 like you did in your line "Dim f1 as New MyForm" . Still there should be one somewhere...Because my program works. I am confused: "public class Form1" only creates a class in my view. NOT an instance.
On Dec 4, 7:00 pm, Cerebrus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's usually like this : > --- > Public Class Form1 > Inherits System.Windows.Forms.Form > --- > > So, Form1 is a class. You can name it anything you like...such as > "MyForm". And then you can create instances of this class : > > --- > Dim f1 as New MyForm() > --- > That is an instance of MyForm. > > On Dec 4, 4:34 pm, erik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > in VB 2008 I write something like: > > public class Form1 > > . > > . > > . > > > end class > > > Which is code related to the processing of a form. > > However: of a SPECIFIC form, namely Form1. > > Now: what is the meaning of the word class in VB ? aren't we talking > > about an INSTANCE of a class here , instead of a class ?
