Structuring Properties???

[James_Carlson]

I am writing some large classes that have alot of properties that could be catorgized

eg.)

Person
>FirstName
>LastName
>Address
>>Postalcode
>>pobox
>>Street
>>Apartment

this is just an example my class is not as simple as this :

They way i was thinking of doing this is nested classes:

Class Person
 
    Class Address
          Public Property Street() as String
            'whatever>
           End Property
     End Class
 
End Class

[VBCrazyCoder]

Why not make Address a stand alone class so that it can be reused outside of Person, for say Building.

[Pirate]

lol , what's your question ?

[James_Carlson]

I wanted to know if this is the proper way of doing it.

[DevGrp]

Do what VBCrazyCoder said. Make each class separate and use inheritance.

[Pirate]

If these obje have any relation to each other then put them in one class , this class contains the obj and their properties .

[hellswraith]

Originally posted by Pirate
If these obje have any relation to each other then put them in one class , this class contains the obj and their properties .

I am not sure I understand you correctly, but I think you are saying that if they have a relationship, they should be in the same class. That would be bad OO programming if you did that. Person should be a class that is seperate from the Address class. Then, the person object can expose a Address object as a property, and so could any other object that could possibly have an address associated with it. For example, Building, as mentioned above, has a physical address. Or how about a piece of equipment you are keeping track of where it is at, it should have an Address associated with it also.