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VB Script

Classes
• VB Script version 5 is having the ability to write Classes.

• Object is an instance of class and it is an in-memory

representation of a complex data and programming
structure that can exist only while program running.

• Class is a template for object; it is a block of code.

• Component is nothing more than a packaging

mechanism, a way of compiling one or more related
classes into a binary file that can distributed to one or
more computers. Ex:- .DLL, .OCX

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Class Syntax

Class classname
Code
End Class

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• Properties When a script creates an
object based on class, properties are the
mechanisms through which data is stored
and accessed.
1. Private Property
2. Public Property

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• Property Let is a special kind of procedure that
allows code outside of a class to place a value in
a private property value.
Class customer
Private localvar
Public Property Let customername(outsidevar)
Localvar = outsidevar
End Property
End Class

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• Property Get is inverse of a Property Let procedure. It is
allows code outside of your class to read the value of a
private property variable.
Class customer
Private localvar
Public Property Let customername(outsidevar)
Localvar = outsidevar
End Property
Public Property Get customername()
customername = Localvar
End Property
End Class

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• Property Set is very similar to Property Let procedure,
but the Property Set procedure is used exclusively for
object-based properties. When the property needs to
store an object.
Class customer
Private localobj
Public Property Set customername(outsideobj)
localobj = outsideobj
End Property
End Class

*Code outside of your class must use the Set

Object.Property = Object syntax

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• Making a Property Read-Only
• -By providing only a Property Get procedure
-By declaring the Property Get procedure as public
and the Property Let procedure as Private

• Making a Property Write-Only

• -You can omit the Property Get procedure and
provide only a Property Let procedure
-You can declare the Property Let procedure with
Public statement, and declare the Property Get
procedure with Private statement

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• Public Properties without Property Procedures

Class customer
Private localvar
Public Property Let customername(outsidevar)
Localvar = outsidevar
End Property
Public Property Get customername()
customername = Localvar
End Property
End Class

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• Above code is equal to
Class customer
Public localvar
End Class

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• Methods is a different name for functions
and procedures

• Class Events is a method that is called

automatically. It calls when event fires.

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• Class_Initialize Event fires when some code
instantiates an object that is based on your class.
Class customer
Private localobj
Public Sub Class_Initialize
Set localobj =
WScript.CreateObject(“Scripting.FileSystemObject”)
End Sub

<code……>
End Class

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• Class_Terminate Event fires when an object that is based on your
class is destroyed.
Class customer
Private localobj
Public Sub Class_Initialize
Set localobj =
WScript.CreateObject(“Scripting.FileSystemObject”)
End Sub
Public Sub Class_Terminate
Set localobj = Nothing
End Sub
<code……>
End Class

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• Class level Constants doesn’t support by
VB script. We can use Read only property
instead of the constants.
• Class level Arrays has supporting in
upgraded versions of VB Script

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No Q&A plz

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The End

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