Managing Classes and Class Libraries

Visual FoxPro uses stored definitions of classes in class library files. You can perform tasks such as create class libraries, add classes and subclasses, copy and rename classes, redefine parent class relationships, and remove classes from class libraries.

Visual FoxPro provides several means for managing classes and class libraries. However, using the Class Browser to manage classes updates projects and forms as well as class libraries. Changes that you make in the Class Browser propagate through every class library (.vcx) and form (.scx) file that is open in the Class Browser.

In This Section

• Operating the Class Browser
  Describes working with the Class Browser.

• How to: Create Class Libraries (Visual FoxPro)
  Describes the methods for creating class libraries.

• How to: Open Class Libraries
  Describes how to open class libraries.

• How to: Add Classes and Subclasses to Class Libraries
  Describes how to add new classes and subclasses to existing class libraries.

• How to: Rename Classes in Class Libraries
  Describes the methods to rename a class within a class library.

• How to: Copy Classes Between Class Libraries
  Describes the process to copy a class from one class library to another class library.

• How to: Redefine Parent Class Relationships
  Describes the method to change the parent class of a class.

• How to: Remove Classes from Class Libraries
  Describes how to remove a class from a class library.

• How to: View Type Library Information
  Describes how to view type library information.

Related Sections

• Object-Oriented Programming
  Discusses how you can create self-contained application components that respond to user actions and to the system and which can be easily maintains and reused.