Chapter 6. Building Your Own Types with Object-Oriented Programming

This chapter is about making your own types using object-oriented programming (OOP). You will learn about all the different categories of members that a type can have, including fields to store data and methods to perform actions. You will use OOP concepts such as aggregation and encapsulation.

This chapter will cover the following topics:

• Talking about OOP
• Building class libraries
• Storing data with fields
• Writing and calling methods
• Controlling access with properties and indexers
• Simplifying methods with operators
• Raising and handling events